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Communism

LC control no.sh 85029120
LC classificationHX1 HX780.9
Topical headingCommunism
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Variant(s)Bolshevism
Communist movements
Leninism
Maoism
Marxism
Trotskyism
See alsoCollectivism
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Totalitarianism
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Post-communism
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Socialism
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Village communities
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Scope noteHere are entered works on revolutionary ideologies or movements inspired by Marx and advocating the abolition of private property, dictatorship of the proletariat, and gradual disappearance of the state. Present day communist movements are characterized by collective ownership of the means of production and totalitarian, single party governments.