Vladimir Lenin and the Marxist theory.?

Question

I kind of need help with this essay topic: "To what extent did Lenin implement Marx's Theory?"

Answer 1

The 1917 October Revolution, led by Vladimir Lenin, was the first large scale attempt to put Marxist ideas about a workers' state into practice. The new government faced counter-revolution, civil war and foreign intervention. Many, both inside and outside the revolution, worried that the revolution came too early in Russia's economic development. Consequently, the major Socialist Party in the UK decried the revolution as anti-Marxist within twenty-four hours, according to Jonathan Wolff. Lenin consistently explained "this elementary truth of marxism, that the victory of socialism requires the joint efforts of workers in a number of advanced countries" (Lenin, Sochineniya (Works), 5th ed Vol XLIV p418.) It could not be developed in Russia in isolation, he argued, but needed to be spread internationally. The 1917 October Revolution did help inspire a revolutionary wave over the years that followed, with the development of Communist Parties worldwide, but without success in the vital advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe. Socialist revolution in Germany and other western countries failed, leaving the Soviet Union on its own.

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Answer 2

First of all his name was Nikolai Lenin. Vladmir was his first name for the name he grew up with. He chose the surname of Lenin in adulthood.
He tried to implement the ideas contained in Marx and Engel's treatise "The Communist Manifesto". But, within three years of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, he was forced to adopt what he called the "new economic theory". It was a return to limited market capitalism and was finally ended by Joseph Stalin who followed Lenin into power. From that point on, Stalin relied on Lenin's modification of Marx's ideas called the dictatorship of the proletariate in advancing the modernization of Russia and the consolidation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.