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From the mid-19th century the ideas of socialism, such as the establishment of a classless society and public ownership, began to influence early Russian radicals. Their work inspired the Russian revolutionary Lenin and other Bolshevik leaders who eventually seized power in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Lenin's modification of traditional Marxist and Russian socialist doctrine to fit conditions prevailing in Russia became known as Marxism-Leninism, the basis of communist ideology.

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