Communism In The Soviet Union And Why It Failed

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they believed that the
ownership of industry would be in fewer and fewer hands where the workers would
plunge into a state of ever-increasing misery. These impoverished workers grow
in numbers and organize themselves into a political party which would lead a
revolution in which they dispose of the capitalists. The proletariat would
establish a society governed by a " dictatorship of the proletariat" based on
communal ownership of the wealth. According to Marx this phase of human society
is referred to as socialism. Communism is the final transcendence of this
revolution in which there is a break up and elimination of the state and no
class division. That is the primary reason that it was called the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. What was the
problem with this system of government, if this is a workers paradise what
happened ? What did the Soviet Union do wrong to cause a breakdown of their
ideal system ? In this paper I will ...

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from
about 470,000 to millions. He nationalized the Soviet industries and
agriculture. A rapid industrialization program was pushed on the people even
though they lacked materials. Police terror was also used to suppress dissent
and opposition. This became known as Stalinism.

Communist rule was confined to the Soviet Union until the end of World War II.
The Soviet Red Army liberated several countries in eastern Europe from the Nazi
Germany control. The soviets sponsored and helped form the communist
governments in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, East Germany,
and North Korea. Stalinism became the basic model for most of these new
governments. After Stalin's ...

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