ABSTRACT
After World War I Communism had some appeal in the Middle East, especially in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. This early period of development was characterized by deliberate opposition to religion, political institutions, traditional norms and government. Lenin's fundamental principles for the new type of international relations were formulated at both the second All-Russia Congress of Soviets and in the Decree on Peace, November 1917. The new stage of 'contradictions’ would therefore then be elevated to a worldwide scale, the result of which, as Ivan Kovalenko predicted, would be the fall of world imperialism. The national bourgeoisie, according to Soviet precepts, played an awakening role in the backward countries in the sense that they spearheaded the struggle against imperialism for the sake of national independence. Lenin had also pointed out that tactical and strategic principles had to take two forms of revolutionary struggle.
