ABSTRACT
An explanatory model emphasizing similarities between communist revolutions considers phenomena like Leninism, Maoism and Castroism to be variations on a theme composed by Karl Marx, and caused by a set of circumstances generally described as underdevelopment. Vladimir Lenin never systematically examined the matter of arming or militarizing the party organization. The communist is committed to a deterministic model of history while he is pressed to rationalize his role as a conscious, willful political man. Real organization of the insurrection was in the hands of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet. J. Stalin, in the name of Leninism, demanded that the Chinese party aim to take provincial capitals, from Mao's countryside base, and provide the communist movement with vital "proletarian centers". The strengthening of military organization as a basis for communist revolution was greatly enhanced by the Cuban revolutionary experience.
