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- Russian · borrowed fromмарксизм-ленинизм
- English todayMarxism-Leninism
Borrowed from Russian марксизм-ленинизм (marksizm-leninizm). By surface analysis, Marxism + Leninism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations. Full definition →
Borrowed from Russian марксизм-ленинизм (marksizm-leninizm). By surface analysis, Marxism + Leninism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.