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OCR: Communism politicai and economic system in which property is owned by the community and spoob are distributed according basic common needs. Though the idea of communal society has ancient roots the modern theory of communism was iargely the work of two 19th -century philosophers, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Inspired by their writings, Viadimir Lenin and other revolutionaries estabiished communist regime in Russia in 1917 Under Lenin (and later Joseph Stalin communism became a totalitarian system in which a single party controlled the government eC onomy and cultural life of the Soviet Union During the 1920s and 1930s communism was viewed by many Europeans as the greatest enemy of democracy capitalism and traditional morality. This became central theme of European fascist movements and ...