Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1. Considering the period 1953 to 1991, analyze the problems within the Soviet Union that contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet system. Starting in 1953 the downfall of the Soviet Union began with the death of Joseph Stalin, dictator of Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Stalin started his leadership as Communist leader, but over time turned the Soviet government into a dictatorship. After his death, Communist Party leaders did not know what to do with the government which created…

Historical Condition Russia’s historical origin can be traced back in 600 A.D when Slavs; Indo –European ethnic group dispersed to inhabit majority of Central, Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe. Slavs community who were farmers, fishers and hunters were organized in disintegrated unifications of city states known as Kieven –Rus. In early 1200’s Mongol invaders conquered Kieven-Rus and the Slavs fled into the nearby forest and settled along the Moskova River. The settlement grew into the city…

Trotsky was not the only famous critic of the Soviet Union to raise concerns that the Bolshevik party had replaced the bureaucratic elites of pre-revolutionary Russia. Milovan Djilas raised similar criticisms when he wrote, “In practice, the ownership privilege of the new class manifests itself as an exclusive right, as a party monopoly, for the political bureaucracy to distribute national income” (Djilas, pg 44). Djilas went on to write that the “Party control over society, identification of…

Committee of the Communist Party. He was well known as the leader of the Soviet Union, which was allied with the United States to crush Hitler and his army. While leader of the Soviet Union and dictator, Stalin transforms Russia from a peasant society to a global superpower. He had also killed many in this process, the human cost was staggering. Twice as many people were executed in Stalin’s…

To this day, Mao Zedong remains the most potent figure in the public imagination of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ideological progenitor of Chinese socialism, a commander in the war of resistance against Japan, the revolutionary leader of the People’s Republic of China, and its longest serving leader. Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China…

nearly 45 years because neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to compromise their political or religious ideals. Both nations considered their way of thinking to be the best, and the looming threat of nuclear warfare further escalated the tension. A stalemate resulted from the countries’ inability to address their differences, especially those on politics, economics, and religion. When the United States and the Soviet Union began to address their differences, both had seen…

The concept of Socialist Realism originated in the former USSR, and appeared as a result of the Communist party’s intention to control all aspects of cultural life in Russia and in other countries in the Soviet Union (Reyland, 2001). In 1932, the Communist party took total control over art and music and put demands and limitations on creative artists to produce works that displayed an imposed reality rather than abstract themes and subjects (Huseynova, 2016). Cooperation with the new…

labor unions and management, which had been escalating during the preceding two decades. Laborers and managers came together in various industries to compromise, which resulted in the introduction of “social contracts”. Social contracts were long-term agreements signed between unions and employers, and during the 1950s they focused on a variety of issues long-disputed by workers, unions, and employers. Overall, the creation of social contracts benefited both sides for it enabled both parties to…

the Soviet Union in the east was the capital of communism and they were looking to spread their beliefs to other uninfluenced and even influenced lands. Communists in the 80’s wanted the world…

The day of 1991, the falling of Soviet Union was a very disappointed day for the most communism parties. However, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A day before, representatives from all 15 Soviet republics gather in a meeting in the Kazakhstan city of Alma-Ata to tell the world that there would no longer Soviet Union. More than 20 years have passed that Union of Soviet Socialist Republics disappeared from the world political stage. Instead, they announced that…