Communist Party of the Soviet Union

political and social tensions rose so dramatically that they led to war with Vietnam. Cambodia went from celebrating their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and resettled others from urban areas to the countryside. Because of all…

angles. Although Allison’s division of models and variants are convoluted, he is correct in suggesting that internal structure and mechanisms can affect a government’s international decisions. Furthermore, the decision maker, the bureaucracy, and party factions all played a role in the case of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was well known that Kennedy himself had established rapport with Khrushchev to the point where his first reaction was “He can’t do this to me!” upon hearing the news of the…

going through (“History of Latin America”). He once had the Title of Premier until 1976, then he was president of the Council of State and also Council of Ministries (“Fidel Castro”). Although his leadership was high, it greatly decreased when the Soviet Union crashed. This drastic event resulted in a decline of consumer goods (“Fidel Castro”). After his daughter had emotionally moved to the U.S. against her father, he then released an ambiguous amount of immigrants to the U.S.A. In 1980 Fidel…

the politics of the Soviet Union. Stalin argued that as the country advanced towards reaching socialism, the actions of the classes struggling against it may cause an explosion in society and destroy the Soviet Union. Because of this fear, repression was needed to prevent the fall of the Union. Stalin began to label people inside the party leading the socialist state to those who disagreed with the official Party line and claimed that continued conflict would weaken the party, eventually leading…

Mao tse-tung brought the communist revolution to China and gained political though the barrel of a gun. The Chinese system he overthrew nearly 50 years ago was backwards and corrupt. Few would argue the fact that he dragged China into the 20th century. But at a cost in human lives that is staggering. Suspected enemies of the party were murdered by the millions, farming collectives and the Great Leap Forwards of industrialization that failed miserably and left millions more died from starvation.…

the Bolshevik Party. The Bolshevik took control of Russia in 1917 and in 1922 the Soviet Union was founded. Vladimir Lenin was appointed leader of the Soviet Union in 1922. During the time Joseph Stalin became more and more respected in the party. He was soon given the job secretary general of the Central Committee of the Communist Party where he would choose allies and gain political support. In 1924 Lenin died and Stalin saw his opportunity to seize total control of the Soviet Union. He slowly…

In the late 1970’s there was a hot bed of political activity throughout the world, which fed into the Cold War. The Soviet-Afghanistan War was a battlefield in which the Cold War super powers never faced each other but fought each other through different avenues like many other conflicts. Years earlier, the American military fought a counterinsurgency in Vietnam in which the Soviets helped the North Vietnamese fight the Americans. Even though the Americans won the major battles within the…

and the Soviet Union was established upon political and ideological factors. In each and everyway these countries battled to show the world who’s the dominating world power. Both of them fight for the spread of their idea, and a lot of moves with countries using them as puppets to show how complete their belief of perfect Government is. Ronald Reagan and Mikhil Gorbachev both were trying to contain the others belief spread, Their race in a lot of major global investments. Has caused the Soviet…

in some way, but different in others. In a communist society, the working class owns everything, and everyone works toward the same communal goal. There are no wealthy or poor people, all are equal, and the community distributes what it produces based only on need. Nothing is obtained by working more then what is required. Communist frequently in low production, mass poverty and limited advancement. Poverty spreads so widely in the Soviet Union in the 1980 that its citizen’s revolted.…

After World War II and the fall of Hitler and the Third Reich, Germany was divided into two parts. The East was under the control of the Soviet Union and the West became an occupied state by the United States. This occupation period lasted from 1945-1949. During the occupation period, a democracy was established in West Germany. The performance and effectiveness of the West German democracy after the occupation period far surpasses that of the Weimar Republic. There are many factors that lent to…