Communism

Communism was a socio-political ideology and movement whose ultimate goal was the establishment of the communist society, a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes. Following the communist Russian Revolution in 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet Union, political organisations called soviets (in English, "councils") became the main form of communist government at all levels in Russia.

In a 6 December 1926 interview with the New York Chronicle, former French prime minister Georges Clemenceau revealed some of the things he planned to discuss in a talk scheduled for that evening, including what he saw as the post-war emergence of a "new triple alliance" that threatened the Allied powers. According to him, this alliance consisted of "Kemalist Turkey, the reactionary Germany of Ludendorf [sic], and Russia of the Soviets."