How did the Russian Revolution go against Marxist theory?

Marx thought that the most advanced industrial economies and societies would have the first proletariat revolutions. This is because he believed capitalism dug its own grave by greater and greater oppression and exploiting of the industrial working classes over time. read more

Karl Marx predicted the first communist revolution would be in the most advanced industrial economy, namely Germany’s. Then he said the revolution would spread to all the other countries, and that one by one they’d follow the lead country. read more

But regardless of this, Marxism – or at least an adapted form of it – was critical to the development of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. 1. Marxism is a theory of politics, economics and history developed by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s. read more