History of communism

Throughout history there have been hundreds of people who have fought for all kinds of human rights. Some of them took action by appealing to violence, others did it by just communicating a specific concern through literature, music or art. Diego Rivera, for example, was one of Mexico’s greatest social realistic muralists and is currently considered as one of Los Tres Grandes among Mexico’s mural painters (Aldama). Although his paintings had a great success in Mexico, he also had an impact in…

West Berlin: Containment of Communism After WWII , The United States made great efforts to contain communism from spreading around the world. Containment was the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet communism should not be allowed to spread. A short passage, from a telegram that was secretly sent to U.S. State Department officials on February 22, 1946 from an American foreign service officer in Moscow makes it clear that Joseph Stalin and the Soviets believe communism is better than…

virtues and dismissing Russian communism. Schools were frowned upon because they harbored a selective mentality that contradicted communist values. Mao Zedong believed that his vision of communism was being contaminated by elitist greed. Specifically he believed that certain occupations in China were creating a rift between people in China. As a believer in absolute communism he wanted to reaffirm that no class has more power or significance than any other class. Communism in China meant total…

beliefs because the Soviet Union is communist and the United States is capitalist. Each side wanted to dominate the world by forcing other countries to become either communist or capitalist. Because each side had different beliefs, Americans viewed communism as evil and it had an impact on American religion. The Cold War shaped American religious ideals because it elicited a stronger Christian faith, influenced civil religion and linked them to other countries such as Israel, Iran and…

represented or stood for: Democracy and Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. In 1945, Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then allies the United States and Soviet Union forces. The Soviet Union and the United States then became the major and military and political powers or super powers. However, they had contrasting opinions when it came to history, society, politics and…

Marx uses these points to explain how free market capitalism causes this estranged labor. He says that this type of economical and political system causes people to be alienated from “the product…from species-being…from other human beings…in productivity work” (Wolf 2003). He uses this theory to show us the effects that a capitalist society could have on all aspects of a human, his physical ability, his mental capacity, his social life and the obvious economic life. Marx adds to this bashes…

were made toward him led to the development of the play. During the 1950’s, there was a fear among society in the United States regarding communism. Communism is a political theory in which everyone in society works and is paid depending on their needs and property is publicly owned. Russia had once been a threat to the United States and its influence of communism still haunted the capitalist nation during the McCarthy era. Miller’s The Crucible, depicts the Salem witch trials that occurred…

understanding of communism, either from personal experience, or from history teachers and older relatives. But while the majority of Europe agrees that the Eastern Bloc’s socioeconomic system was fundamentally flawed, there are still many proponents of the Marxist-Leninist ideology. These advocates of the socialist state are the topic of the poem “Slavic gods” written by Andriy Bondar, a contemporary Ukrainian poet, who grew up in the Soviet Union. In this piece, Bondar depicts the lives of…

Reflection Assignment Francis Fukayama, “The End of History and the Last Man” Fukuyama presents an argument that at the end of history the world is no longer driven by ideological strife as the fall of the Soviet Union wrought the end of communism as a viable ideology. Fykuyama also asserts that “In the past century, there have been two major challenges to liberalism, those of fascism and of communism… Fascism was destroyed as a living ideology by World War II. This was a defeat, of course,…

The era of the Cold War was a frightening and pivotal time in history. The threat of nuclear war and communism caused unrest among the American public. During the Cold War, the United States government used propaganda to combat growing social issues involving the communist threat. The United States government utilized agitprop to attack communism and defend the American way of life by promoting blacklisting, anti-Russian practices, and the desensitization of Americans. Blacklisting was a major…