"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain." It may not have been a Marxist revolution, but the Soviet Union under Stalin most certainly went through a revolution. This revolution, however, was led from the top, rather than by the lower classes as had previously been commonplace. Lenin had initiated Marxism in Russia with the revolution in October of 1917, after his death in 1924, Lenin was succeeded, to the stated displeasure of Lenin, by Stalin, a man who's cunning political ruthlessness had given him the power to manipulate the minds of the party members. With his position at the head of Soviet government came the power Stalin used to drive forward the second revolution to take hold of the Soviet Union. The effects of Stalin's policies of collectivization and industrialization were huge, some...