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Communist Culture In Russia

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An empire controlled by a fearful dictator and an ever more fearful government that was destined to collapse. Their communistic ideologies influenced their way of life in almost every aspect of their lifestyle. A widely known and generally unliked culture, the Russian Communist culture during the 1900s was rich with symbols, values, beliefs and norms.
The Hammer and sickle is the most popular symbol of the soviet era, appearing on their flag. The Hammer represented the industrial working class of Russia and sickle which was used to represent the agricultural working class. The hammer and sickle were usually represented crossed and with a yellow or red star above, this represented the industrial works and the agricultural peasants as a unified group led by the communist party. The color red was adopted to symbolize the the blood of the proletariat workers who lost their lives while fighting capitalism and to …show more content…

The Orthodox Church was purged the most because it was the largest of religions in Soviet Russia and because it had deep ties in the former government, which gave them power and control.. Religion was outlawed, church property was taken away and atheism was encouraged in schools. There was no such thing as personal beliefs, with the government intervening to have beliefs set on how they wanted them. Russia valued secrecy, the government did not allow any information to pass through to the Soviet Union or any information to pass from the Soviet Union out to the rest of the world. They believed strongly on socialism and communism, their form of communism was called bolshevism. Socialists believed that all food and wealth should be distributed equally to the proletariat, they thought that there should be no bourgeois or vastly wealthy people because they benefited off the working class who would suffer greatly from

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