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The history of socialism in Russia is very largely the history of the attempts by a minority, first as revolutionaries and then as rulers, to fit the masses of the people to its shifting ideas of what was necessary for socialism. Amidst the swirl and clash of these ideas, certain fixed points of course stood out. A socialist society would be one that replaced exploitation and inequality by social justice. It would be a society in which everything necessary for the general wellbeing would be owned in common. It would be a community rather than a cluster of competing individuals, and its members would live and work together in harmony. It would bring about conditions that enabled each person to realize his or her potential to the full. And it would be a society that succeeded in reconciling freedom and equality, one in which people could pursue their individual ends without jeopardizing the wellbeing of others.
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Gooding, J. (2002). Introduction. In: Socialism in Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403913876_1
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