The goal of this research paper is to compare communism in the Soviet Union and China. Through research, the positives and negatives within each state show different approaches to the communist ideal and how the structures of government affected the economy and civil liberties of each society. Communism is an ideology that seeks to create human equality by eliminating private property and market forces. The idea of communism comes from the German philosopher Karl Marx, who argued that human beings learn how to produce goods simply by using coercion to acquire them (book 276). While states have used this ideology in different ways, the different methods have been more or less successful. For example, the Soviet Union was once a communist state
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It has also been found that the Chinese have taken the failures of Russia into account in order to have a more successful regime due to the differences in political stability and type of approach the Chinese’s government is more of a success: “However, the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992 taught the Chinese government an important lesson—social and political stability are equally important to economic growth”(Guo, 2015). The ability to use another regimes failures in order for them to succeed has aided their ability to have a successful government structure and stability. Another aid that has been found is the Chinese’s way of continuing the ideology, although this ideology in order to be successful must be accepted enforcement and prohibition of other ideologies is …show more content…
At the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the report of the Central Committee of the CPSU, N.S. Khrushchev stated that every worker was to clearly understand that life essentials would not fall like manna from the heaven, everyone was to contribute to the national cause, i.e. communism building. (Kosogova, 2015)
Notice that even in their communist regime the Soviet union still retained a Congress and they also created a committee to keep the regime aligned with the communist parties views.
This shows the difference between the governments approach to communism, this is a more deviating approach. Under the rule of Stalin and Lenin both leaders created their own ideologies creating a new form under the umbrella of communism. The new structure of government that they created changed the society drastically: The complex process labelled as Stalinization, involving the radical cultural reshaping or mutation towards the carbon copy of the model, with its implantation and transplantation of the characteristics of the soviet model, with the help of a large variety of tools from privileges to repression.
It has also been found that the Chinese have taken the failures of Russia into account in order to have a more successful regime due to the differences in political stability and type of approach the Chinese’s government is more of a success: “However, the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1992 taught the Chinese government an important lesson—social and political stability are equally important to economic growth”(Guo, 2015). The ability to use another regimes failures in order for them to succeed has aided their ability to have a successful government structure and stability. Another aid that has been found is the Chinese’s way of continuing the ideology, although this ideology in order to be successful must be accepted enforcement and prohibition of other ideologies is …show more content…
At the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the report of the Central Committee of the CPSU, N.S. Khrushchev stated that every worker was to clearly understand that life essentials would not fall like manna from the heaven, everyone was to contribute to the national cause, i.e. communism building. (Kosogova, 2015)
Notice that even in their communist regime the Soviet union still retained a Congress and they also created a committee to keep the regime aligned with the communist parties views.
This shows the difference between the governments approach to communism, this is a more deviating approach. Under the rule of Stalin and Lenin both leaders created their own ideologies creating a new form under the umbrella of communism. The new structure of government that they created changed the society drastically: The complex process labelled as Stalinization, involving the radical cultural reshaping or mutation towards the carbon copy of the model, with its implantation and transplantation of the characteristics of the soviet model, with the help of a large variety of tools from privileges to repression.