title: Chapter Two From Lenin to Stalin
abstract: From Lenin to StalinIdeology and the politics of memory After the Bolshevik coup, Lenin and the highest-ranking members of the Party were faced with the problem of having to explain what had happened from the theoretical point of view and the discrepancies between the theory and the actual events which had occurred in Russia.According to the works of the Marxist Classics, victory for the Socialist (Communist) revolution would come as predicted by the Marxist philosophy of history, on the premise