Summary Of Communism By Albert Zhurav

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Joshua Stobbe October 2017

Communism
Albert Zhuravlev

About the author: Albert Zhuravlev was a Russian citizen living in Moscow. He was one of many who did not agree with communism. He wrote this because communism took everything that he had, as well as his family.

The year 1929, and Russia has a new dictator. His name is Joseph Stalin, and how he imposes communism cruelly. Communism is now worse than before. Communism is when the government decides what you get, what products you sell and where you sell them. They give you the basic needs to live and work. With Stalin, he cares more about industrial and military power than about citizens of Russia. Citizens of Russia either want communism, or they do not.

Communism was founded by Karl

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