ABSTRACT
The Russian Revolution opened a new era in modern history. The First French Republic between 1793-1794 and 1800 constituted a challenge to every other major state system in Europe, and ideological proselytizing was an important element in its drive for expansion. With the outbreak of the European war Lenin repudiated the social-democratic tradition of the Second International and made his celebrated appeal for a return to the earlier militant essence of Marxism. The uniqueness of the Soviet regime proceeded not only from its Communist ideology but also from what might be called its existentialist nature. The Soviet regime has developed the exploitation of external danger to the level of an art. Uncompromising hostility to the Soviet system is a basic tendency of world capitalism.
