ABSTRACT
In 1902 Vladimir published the influential pamphlet What Is to Be Done? using the Lenin's sobriquet. This pamphlet argued that economic strife and individual disputes would not alone lead to a politicised working class. Ideologically, the person who succeeded Lenin was of the utmost importance for communism worldwide. Fears over communism and communist infiltration would again come to the forefront of American politics in the aftermath of the Second World War. As the century continued however, the United States would be increasingly occupied by the push to stop communism from spreading elsewhere particularly under the Soviet leadership of Joseph Stalin from the mid-1920s. By the early 1920s the Soviet Union was increasingly boxed in by its enemies. Other than the potential for the Soviet Union to expand its own frontiers militarily, communism's future increasingly appeared to lie in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where the struggle between the Warsaw Pact and NATO would unfold in the post-Second-World-War world.
