Communism And The Soviet Union

Communism is a system of social organisation which formerly consumed almost a third of countries in the entire world, having originated in Russia. The first official communist state was founded during the Russian revolutions in 1917, due to the inaugural communist political party ‘Bolsheviks’ gaining primal power. Afterwards, the influence of communism spread to other countries with the likes of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and East Germany to name a few. These countries that were governed on communist principles were known as the ‘Eastern Bloc’. Even countries in Asia were persuaded into the theoretically human equality system such as China, Laos and Vietnam. Communism was gathering strength to strength every year in the mid 20th century, but eventually its impact was wiped off in the late 20th century when the Berlin War was knocked down in 1989, ending the barrier between the Eastern and Western blocs. Communism arguably was the most influential social experiment in history, but also the most flawed and its failure to change the world permanently will always remain significant in history.

communism entered a period of crisis in the late 20th century. By the 1980's it

The Cold War, in one sense, was a power struggle between the two nuclear military giants of the age, the United States and the Soviet Union. But on a more basic level, the Cold War was a contest between two opposing ways of life. One was democratic capitalism, whose leading representatives were the United States and the nations of Western Europe. The other was totalitarian Communism, the system of the Soviet Union and its "satellite" nations in Eastern Europe. Between 1945 and 1990, despite constant tensions and an alarming buildup of nuclear arms on both sides, the United States and the Soviet Union officially remained at peace—hence the name the "cold" war. Yet it was hardly a peaceful era. Furthermore through newspapers in USSR (Pravda and

After a series of events during the time of World War II, tensions between the United States and the Communists such as the Soviet Union and China, developed into a military and political conflict such as the Cold War. During the Cold War, which went on for 50 years, the Soviet Union and the United States competed to expand their economical and political influence. Although, the United States military has increased in size and it’s strategy. The United States power today is highly supreme when it comes to competing with other countries in the world. The United States is the world 's largest producer of nuclear power, holding an immense amount of nuclear and atomic bombs, accounting for more than big percentage of worldwide nuclear

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win, workingmen of all countries, unite!” (Karl Marx). This quote is one of the most famous political slogans excerpted from the book Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It demonstrates Marx’s opinion on social classism and how he is against it by stating the imbalance between the working class and the ruling class. The quote ends with a rallying cry and call for the unity of all workers to rebel and demand for their own rights. The book Communist Manifesto is based on the idea of socialist theory. According to the Oxford Online Dictionaries, socialism is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole (www.oxforddictionaries). In other words, it is a political system where the means of production is controlled by the government rather than individuals or private companies. It is described by Marx as the “first and lower phase of communism”. The theory is that the working class should unite together to overthrow the oppressive government and the upper class, which is also known as the bourgeoisie. No private properties should be owned by individuals or organizations. As a result, there will be no social classes to differentiate between

We all are a part of a certain society. Each society has its own beliefs, views, values and principles, traditions and customs and it turns into something that people cannot live without. These common principles are reflected everywhere – public communication, work, school, mass media, leisure activities, art and etc. These traditions are given from generation to generation through education. This phenomenon is called ideology. Personally, when I hear the word ideology, the Soviet Union period comes to my mind and it has a reason. According to Schlesinger (1964), the Soviet rules of a strict totalitarian regime were seen in every aspects of life. The streets were full of banners, posters with the images of heroic workers with the tools in their hands as a call for optimism. The Marxism ideology was taught not only at schools and home but everywhere outside a child is constantly taught the same ideology as it was aimed at making everybody in particular, children to fit in a Communist society.

The past 30 years have been filled with great change and turmoil for many of Europe’s countries. The rise and fall of the USSR as well as widespread communism throughout Europe deeply effected many nations and forever changed the course of their economies. Independence came with a sigh of relief but also a lingering question of how to effectively reenter a market that had been inaccessible for years. Coming up with a plan to transition into the global economy was difficult, and once established implementation was even harder. New policies and reforms were met with resistance and many nations had to work hard to erase the lingering effects of communism from within their economy. Nevertheless, this hard work, in many cases, did pay off and ultimately

Karl Marx is arguably one of the most influential philosophers of the past two centuries, and his ideas of communism have inspired many different implementations in states over that time. However, the means of production available to those states has not been such that a communist regime would be practical or equitable. For this reason, I do not think communism can be forced into existence, and must constantly be evaluated in the current state of technology and international and domestic relationships to discern whether it can be successful.

Communism is a scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. was created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as an economic strategy to end capitalism. It abolished all private ownership and gave ownership to the whole community thus “communism”Marx and Engels felt capitalism created social classes and the lower social classes felt poorly because of this.

The Communism is Karl Marx’s ideal economic system, which promotes a central plan economy. A central plan economic is when the government places quotas on companies that manufacturers goods. After the end of World War II the spread of Communism began to raise in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is the makeup of different European, African, and Asian countries. Communism seem to be a utopia to the poor and working classes of these countries, because of the dismantled the bourgeois and proletarian class and everyone equal socially and economically. Communism did not turn out to be the utopia the countries thought it was going to be. Due to the lack of having the necessary infrastructure to support Communism. Many of the Communism leaders become corrupted and women lost most to all of their rights. Communism not only impacted the countries that were governed by communist parties, but it also impacted the world. Communism impacted United States foreign and domestic policy, African Americans’ relationship with the U.S government, and previous colonized countries views of capitalism.

After the end of world war, the world was divided into two ideological blocks. The eastern bloc popularly known as the United Socialist Soviet of Russia (USSR) and the western bloc dominated by United States and European countries. Now the Soviet Union supported socialist economic ideology and was prepared to ensure that the socialist countries remained socialist-by all means. On the other hand, United States and allies were for capitalism and were determined to spread it as far as possible. They detest socialism and communism because it was against building of business empires by individuals. Building of commercial empires on exploitation of resources of other countries by private companies was the very foundation on which capitalism stood. You now see the conflict-private interests of capitalism versus state interests of communism. Therefore, since 1945, when the World War II ended and the world entered the Cold War period the need to protect communism by USSR and that of United States to spread capitalism pitted the two blocs. As the name suggests the two blocs were involved in proxy wars trying to show to the world that was stronger (Morone, pg 10).

During the nineteenth century, in the midst of increased industrialization, worker exploitation, and growing gaps in wealth, Karl Marx formulated a political theory which would go on to remodel global politics in an unprecedented manner. Marxism, as it would later be known, or more generally, Communism, was destined to guide countless nations’ paths to “liberation.” Two countries in particular, the USSR and the People’s Republic of China, can trace their rapid escapes from “backwardness” into industrial powerhouses, and international superpower and rising superpower, respectively, to their adoption, as well as their exclusive interpretations, of Marxism. However, such flexible and broad adaptations of Marxism to these nations’

After the dissolution of Soviet Union in the 1990s and the economic opening of communist systems in the People Republic of China and the Soviet Union in 1978 and the mid-1980s respectively, it appeared that Marx’s ideological movement would only haunt the annals of history. However, even after the supposed death of “true” communism and Marxist systems, has capitalism truly triumphed over socialism and communism? Although it may appear capitalism is the obvious winner, this interpretation is overly simplistic, if not wrong. Capitalist societies instituted socialist and communist principles and policies into their own systems. The governments once responsible for the suppression of their citizens’ freedoms have progressed closer to the economic and societal systems proposed by communists such as Marx. A deviation away from the industrial capitalist structure that Marx knew is not only achievable, it is arguably already been achieved in some countries, without Marx’s hypothesized bloody and violent “revolution.” Marx refused to acknowledge the permeation of the capitalist system with socialist

Throughout history, people have pushed for it, fought to get rid of it, and started wars over communism. In its theory, Communism is a moneyless, stateless, and classless dream of society to develop a utopia. Under communism, there is no "private property" as there is today. Instead communists believe in a form of "personal property" that is determined by use of an object (as opposed to ideal ownership).

One of the key differences between communism in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and communism in China is how it first began to develop in those countries. The communists in China obtained their power from the bottom up. Mao Zedong, the son of a former peasant farmer, supported peasant revolts and saw the potential power that they had in their communities. Mao realized that the working class in his country was too small to win the revolution alone. He knew that he needed more people in support of the revolution, so he decided to include the peasants. Mao became convinced “that the peasantry was capable of being, not merely the leading force, but virtually the sole force in the revolutionary process.”(1) While working to win the revolution against the Kuomintang, Mao had the idea of creating a revolutionary army out of the peasant class. This ended up working in his favor, because it gave him the support of enough people to win the revolution. In 1947, Mao Zedong declared the foundation of the Communist Party of China.