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This transmutation of a love of God to a love of "the people" as being the basis for a social and political system spread across Europe and other parts of the world during the nineteenth century. In Germany it became a recognition and conciousness of "''das volk''", later in Russia it was a dedication to the "''narodny''". By mid-century, Socialism as a doctrine sought to overthrow the existing order of society, dominated by the Church and aristocracy, by promoting atheism and nationalism. The basic tenet was to replace the individual's committment to love and serve God with the individual's committment to love and serve the collective society.
This transmutation of a love of God to a love of "the people" as being the basis for a social and political system spread across Europe and other parts of the world during the nineteenth century. In Germany it became a recognition and conciousness of "''das volk''", later in Russia it was a dedication to the "''narodny''". By mid-century, Socialism as a doctrine sought to overthrow the existing order of society, dominated by the Church and aristocracy, by promoting atheism and nationalism. The basic tenet was to replace the individual's committment to love and serve God with the individual's committment to love and serve the collective society.
Nationalism can be defined as pride in one's native language and culture. Socialist theoriticians, wanting to overthrow the exisitng order, stirred up nationalist resentment among the minorities within the larger German, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. By the twentieth century, [[V.I. Lenin]] insisted on the right of subjugated peoples to break away from the great empires. Once the [[Bolsheviks]] were in power in Russia however, any attempt on the part of one of the peoples to break away from the Socialist Union of nations was considered counter-revolutionary activity. <ref>J. L. Talmon, ''The Unique and the Universal'', Secker & Warburg, London 1965. </ref>
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