Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto
Answer the question below with a 500-700 word essay (roughly 2 to 4 printed pages, 12-point font,
double spaced, not including “Works Cited” page).
Answer the following two-part question on Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto :
(1) Consider the historical details of the Russian Revolution, Lenin’s leadership, and the Russian
Civil War in Gellately’s Lenin, Stalin, Hitler (pgs. 21-77). Discuss one or two ways in which
Lenin and the Bolsheviks followed the revolutionary guidelines set out in Marx and Engel’s
Communist Manifesto. Discuss one or two ways in which Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not
follow the Communist Manifesto. (350 words maximum)
(2) Compare and contrast the account of communism in Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto
with the account of National Socialism in Hitler’s Mein Kampf. What are one or two major
differences? What are one or two major things they have in common? (350 words maximum)