Research On Lenin’s Communist Ideal And Belief Education Thought

Ideals and convictions are the spiritual pillars for a country,a nation and a political party to forge ahead into the future.Strengthening ideals and convictions is a fundamental issue that has a bearing on the spiritual strength and future and destiny of Marxist political parties and socialist countries.Over the past 100 years,the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese nation and Chinese people to make great achievements in the great historical cause of saving the country,rejuvenating the country,making the country rich and powerful.The key lies in always adhering to the belief in Marxism,the belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics,and the confidence in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.At this stage,from a domestic point of view,China has embarked on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and marching towards the second centennial goal.Internationally,the world is in a critical period of accelerating the evolution of major changes and intensifying turbulence in the international situation.In the face of various opportunities and challenges,how the Communist Party of China,as the world’s largest Marxist ruling party,can lead the Chinese people to uphold Marxist ideals and beliefs,always walk in the forefront of the times,win the historical initiative,and steadily and far-reaching promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a major theoretical and practical issue.Lenin’s ideas on education in communist ideals and convictions are the ideological and theoretical achievements of Lenin’s development of Marxist education in ideals and convictions to a new historical stage,the theoretical and practical achievements of Lenin’s education in ideals and convictions for the Russian people,and the product of the integration of Marxist theory with the revolution and practice of the Russian proletariat.It not only has profound historical value for guiding communists to carry out socialist revolution and construction in Russia,but also creatively enriches and develops the form and content of education on Marxist ideals and beliefs,and meets the actual needs of enhancing the political consciousness and ideological consciousness of the broad masses of the people under the historical situation in Russia at that time.Systematically studying Lenin’s thinking on education in communists’ ideals and convictions will enrich and develop Marxist thinking on education in ideals and convictions.Besides,there will be strong reference significance for strengthening party building,strengthening the people’s confidence,and ultimately realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.This paper is divided into three parts according to the analysis idea of combining theoretical logic,historical logic and practical logic.From the theoretical basis and background of the times of Lenin’s thought on education in communist ideals and beliefs,and on the basis of sorting out and analyzing Lenin’s relevant literature,the development process of Lenin’s thought on education in communist ideals and beliefs is expounded.On this basis,in-depth analysis of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education content,practice path.Finally,it summarizes the characteristics and contemporary enlightenment of Lenin’s educational thinking on communist ideals and beliefs.The main points of this paper are as follows:First,it analyzes the theoretical source,historical background and development course of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education thought.Starting from the discrimination of the basic connotations of ideals and beliefs,communist ideals and beliefs,and communist ideal and belief education,it then excavates and sorts out the theoretical expositions of Marx and Engels on ideal and belief education,systematically expounds the background in which Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education thought was proposed,and summarizes the development process of the three stages of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education thought: The first stage was before the October Revolution,Lenin criticized the erroneous trends of thought such as "criticism freedom",“Russian exceptionalism ”,revisionism,opportunism,etc,defended and developed Marxism,and strengthened the belief in communism;The second stage,from the victory of the October Revolution to the period of wartime communism,Lenin led the Russian people in the Soviet Union in waging an arduous struggle to defend and consolidate the nascent Soviet power,and established the conviction to realize communism;The third stage was from the period of the New Economic Policy to the later years of Lenin.He proposed to replace the wartime communist policy with the New Economic Policy,to develop the productive forces by state capitalism,and make the transition to socialism,which strengthened the confidence in the inevitable victory of communism.Secondly,it expounds the content and practice path of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education.The tasks of education in Lenin’s communist ideals and convictions include education in the scientific truth of Marxism,education in the complete victory of communism,education in the revolutionary will and lofty quality of communists,and education in the "iron discipline" of the proletariat.In practice,Lenin effectively carried out ideal and belief education by establishing and giving play to the role of proletarian educational organizations,paying attention to the propaganda and leading role of news and public opinion tools,and carrying out the party’s own education.Thirdly,this paper probes into the historical status and contemporary enlightenment of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education thought.This part is divided into two levels: first,at the historical level,on the basis of comparing with Marx and Engels’ ideal and belief education thought,four-point theoretical contribution of Lenin’s communist ideal and belief education thought are summarized,and historical significance is expounded from three aspects: developing the basic principles of Marxist ideal and belief education to a new stage,laid a solid ideological foundation for the victory of the revolution and the consolidation of Soviet power,providing successful experience for Communist Parties around the world in carrying out education in ideals and beliefs.Second,at the practical level,from the five aspects: strengthening faith in Marxism,adhering to the combination of lofty ideals with common ideals,strengthening faith in socialism with Chinese characteristics,promoting education in ideals and beliefs,and actively expanding the new carrier of education in ideals and beliefs,it expounded the important enlightenment significance of Leninist’s communist education on ideals and convictions to contemporary China in aspect of comprehensively strengthening the party’s ideological construction,strengthening education in ideals and beliefs,and guiding the whole party to remember the party’s purpose.