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Marxist-Leninist ideology and Soviet policy

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  4. Ibid., p. 387. I would like to thank Prof. Brzezinski for his helpful criticisms of an earlier working paper from which this article was prepared.

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Comey, D.D. Marxist-Leninist ideology and Soviet policy. Studies in Soviet Thought 2, 301–320 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832199

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