Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Under Stalin’s control, the Soviet Union experienced a foundational transformation that served to create a new empire. The Communist Party became the core of the state, forming a government of party leaders and soviets, as well as replacing capitalist elements of the former era with the ideology of socialism. Stalin’s Soviet Union also underwent rapid industrialization, shifting the country’s chief economy from agriculture to manufacturing. Nevertheless, the push for industrialization saw…

within a few years, the entire Soviet Union broke apart into various nations across Eurasia. In some circles, the Soviet collapse was blamed on Gorbachev’s poor and hesitant leadership. Despite Gorbachev’s leadership being a contributing factor, several other significant issues remained. To supplement the readings, we played a political game to discuss the complexities of this topic. Our political game was based on how these issues could be solved to prevent the Soviet Union’s collapse. This was…

place as general secretary of the Communist Party. His reforms included perestroika and glasnost, or restructuring and openness. In 1986, a nuclear power station exploded, leaving radioactive material in its wake. In 1988, Gorbachev replaces the current president. In 1989, Soviet communist governments begin to disintegrate and in East Germany, a series of mass rallies lead to the Berlin Wall falling on November 9. After 1989, Gorbachev’s position in the Soviet Union begins to deteriorate. The…

Bolshevik Party took over the government. This is called the Bolshevik Revolution (a revolution in Russia in 1917 through 1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power). Lenin established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and he was the leader of the new government, he also was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (the founding and ruling political party of the Union of Soviet Socialist…

The fall of the Berlin Wall had the greatest impact in my opinion on the fall of the Soviet Union. The wall was initially put up to keep people from fleeing East Germany. Although, the people in the East were informed differently about the actual wall’s purpose. In November of 1989, the Berlin Wall was dismantled. The wall was put in place by the East German Communist Government to keep East and West Berlin separated. People could no longer see their families or friends. It effected people who…

through wealth and economic strength. After World War Two, America and the Soviet Union were the two most powerful nations on Earth. While many European countries had been torn apart by the war and in need of much rebuilding, the United States had thrived economically due to the industries that emerged to support the war effort. The Soviet Union…

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…

Although the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution aimed to create a communist society in the USSR based on Marxism, however due to several reasons, the society (and state) they formed was different from the one envisioned by Marx. Marxism, in essence, is Karl Marx’s political ideology whereas communism is a society (and a political system) based on that ideology. The research paper explores this thesis by a comparative analysis of Marxist doctrines and its application as carried out by Lenin and…

Germany and the Soviet Union could not have been more different, though they relied on many of the same mechanisms to maintain their totalitarian control of power. Nazi Germany was a fascist dictator ship, with all decisions coming from the top down. The Soviet Union was a one-party socialist state, and although its eras in history are marked by the president, power rested mostly in the hands of the party. Aside from the differences in political structures between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia,…

Many ideas and systems keep a country together. Such as an economic system. Examples of economic systems are capitalism, communism, and socialism. A very know communist was the Soviet Union. The socialist party is a democracy that believes in equality for all and that people should be in charge of their own lives. They have no dictator or are run by a single person. The government doesn't exactly control everyone but rather each city or town allows the mayor or citizens to make decisions for…