<P> Karl Marx made no detailed proposals for the structure of a socialist or communist government and society other than the replacement of capitalism with socialism , and eventually communism , by the victorious working class . Lenin , the leader of the Bolsheviks , had developed the theory that a Communist Party should serve as the vanguard of the proletariat , ruling in their name and interest , but , like Marx , had not developed a detailed economic or political program . The new Communist government of the Soviet Union faced alarming problems : extending practical control beyond the major cities , combatting counter-revolution and opposing political parties , coping with the continuing war , and setting up a new economic and political system . </P>
<P> Karl Marx made no detailed proposals for the structure of a socialist or communist government and society other than the replacement of capitalism with socialism , and eventually communism , by the victorious working class . Lenin , the leader of the Bolsheviks , had developed the theory that a Communist Party should serve as the vanguard of the proletariat , ruling in their name and interest , but , like Marx , had not developed a detailed economic or political program . The new Communist government of the Soviet Union faced alarming problems : extending practical control beyond the major cities , combatting counter-revolution and opposing political parties , coping with the continuing war , and setting up a new economic and political system . </P>
the soviet union set up what kind of political economic system
the soviet union set up what kind of political economic system
replacement of capitalism with socialism , and eventually communism
replacement of capitalism with socialism , and eventually communism