ABSTRACT
Vladimir Lenin attempted to provide a political realism that could adequately describe the nature of modern warfare and peacefare and, moreover, ascertain its value for the Russian nation. The cardinal precept in the Russian communist approach to war and peace is the class origins and causes of strife. Nikita S. Khrushchev has extended the Russian communist position in certain important directions. In the rhetoric of Soviet dialecticians, what is good for the Russian nation is eo ipso good for the "international working-class movement." The actual determination of support or opposition to a particular conflict depends ultimately on the possibilities of Communist growth in the situation. The development of the Soviet Communist position in relation to the problem of war and peace between 1933 and 1945 is marked by several definite stages. The problem in the Soviet theory of warfare is that it has been made obsolescent by the Soviet practice of peacefare.
