What is Democratic Centralism?
'''Democratic Centralism''' is a [[Leninism|Leninist]] idea which means that the [[ruling party]] (in the case of [[Russia]], the [[Bolsheviks]]) would discuss an idea to come up with an answer, and then once an answer was decided discussion would never be allowed again. [[Joseph Stalin]] used this [[principle]] to help him rise to power in the 1920s. [[Category:Communism]] {{politics-stub}}