Communist Party of the Soviet Union

back to it’s former glory after the downfall of the Soviet Union and Soviet communism threatened Russia’s position in the world as an international superpower. Prior to its modern day replication of the United States’s representative democracy, Russia’s system of government transitioned through two stages. As the totalitarian dictatorship of the Czarist period evolved into the socialist republic of the Soviet era, the world observed the Soviet Union’s attempts at implementing Karl Marx’s…

the average American citizen had of the Reds. Soviets in America by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, the McCarthy Era by Richard M. Fried are the two main sources of information. These books will then be evaluated in origin, purpose, values. At the conclusion of World War II in 1945, Europe was affected by a power. Two powers sought dominance in the region. On one side was the United States of America or the West, and on the other was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After the defeat,…

the Soviets wanted to be more powerful, and both counties did not agree how to help other counties. This war went on for forty years and it cost a lot of problems in the counties. The cold war had a lot of things going on at the time. The Soviets wanted to share things and the united states did not want to share anything. Comunism was a big deal because most of the counties did not want to do it. Immediately after world war two they wanted to stop communism. Russia became known as the Soviet…

“war” between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although people called it a war, it was not really a war but more of an argument per say, there was no physical conflict between the two superpowers. They fought through proxy wars a war through third parties. This war went on for 45 years with the end result being the U.S. coming out victorious by bringing down the Berlin wall and the borders, freeing the people from communism, and having the Soviet Union being divided into several different…

Joseph Stalin was a violent and cruel leader that led the Soviet Union into World War II and dictated Russia for many years. Many people considered Joseph Stalin as a tyrant because of the gruesome actions he did for the Soviet Union in order to win wars and battles. Despite his horrific contributions to his army, he guided the Soviet Union through wars with tedious tactics and battle strategies. First, Joseph Stalin’s early life was brutal. Many people suggest that it was his childhood…

fear of communism grew in America. As a result, the American government implemented ways of abolishing any communist sympathizers by attempting to stop their ideas from spreading. These organizations confined many Americans, even those who were not involved. The organizations began to ban people in Hollywood and restrict movies, in fear that the American people would intrust in certain communist ideas that went against America’s democracy. Regardless of the ways they attempted to abolish…

century, the United States knew no greater enemy than the Soviet Union and during this time, both nations took drastic actions in an effort to bring about the downfall of the other. One such event occurred in 1979, when the Soviet Union dispatched its military into Afghanistan to quell a nationalist uprising against the newly-instated communist government. Naturally the United States supported this uprising, an action that ensured a Soviet defeat and ultimately an end to the Cold War. These…

countries. Russia then went through rapid political liberalization under Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soon after, there was a system collapse and the Soviet Union came to an end. China, on the other hand, began a, “managed transition that involved the step-by-step introduction of elements of capitalism while the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) retained a monopoly of political power.” The Chinese political system continues to be intact today, and the…

because the late Soviet leadership renounced the very forces that forged the Soviet empire and that propped up Bolshevik government’s modus operandi since its inception. In 1917, the yoke of repression was heated by Lenin, and through 1953 cooked by Stalin in complete totalitarian fashion. Gorbachev, however, resolved to govern differently not realizing the policy contradictions that would ultimately lead to USSR’s demise. If Gorbachev were the same person as Lenin or Stalin, the Soviet Union…

impractical. Much of early communist thought was based in religious ideals. Radicals sought to create a heaven on earth through Christian virtues such as simplicity, brotherhood, equality, and other such lofty goals. These groups often sought to escape the rest of society, rather than reform it in whole. The philosophical writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau marked the crossing between the agrarian form of communism from the old days to the modern and industrialized communist beliefs that we…