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Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary who saw himself, and his organization, the Bolsheviks, as the vanguard of the global working class. His view of the world was based on what he saw as the unavoidable confrontation of opposing forces in world politics, socialism vs. capitalism. In his policies he was relentlessely internationalist, even though he was quite capable of temporary compromise on behalf of the Soviet state which was based within the former Russian empire.
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