The Rise And Fall Of The Communist Party

During the 1900s, Communism was rampant in Europe and the U.S. government feared it would infiltrate their government. The rise of communism in the Soviet Union turned them from an ally into a competitor. Because their style of government directly contradicted the American capitalist style of our market, many people became scared that the communists would take over, shown by the multiple Red Scares. The USSR proclaimed that their goal was for the entire world to become Communist, which threatened the U.S. way of life and the U.S. government wanted to do anything to stop the advancement of Communist ideas.

Following the timeline of Josef Stalin’s ruling as a leader of Soviet Russia, it can be seen that his positive accomplishments brought Russia from a period of

Serving as one the most controversial leaders of the Soviet Union during its relatively short existence, Nikita Sergeyevich Khruschev proved to be a leader capable of transforming a nation. Through his many alterations to the systems by which the Soviets lived, he managed to increase the standard of living and productivity of this Communist State. Described as a man of enormous energy and drive, he was shrewd, tough, earthy, sociable and talkative, and he confidently took colossal gambles in both foreign and domestic policies. From his "Secret Speech" and the following De-Stalinization of the Union, to the friendly relations with other countries of the world, his goal to remodel the Soviet Union into an

Joseph Stalin was a Russian that controlled the Soviet Union, and was also a world communist leader for nearly 30 years. Stalin was voted up as a member of the Tbilisi committee in 1901.  This committee was the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party.  In 1902, Stalin was arrested and sent to a prison in Siberia.  After Stalin escaped from prison, he started robbing banks and raided money transports during the revolution.  Later on, Stalin was an avid participator in the congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party.  Stalin made a particular political system that worked for his people.  This political system included, "unprecedented severity in police control, bureaucratic centralization, and personal dictatorship" ("Joseph Stalin").   In 1929, Joseph Stalin took over the Soviet Union as the new leader of the Communist Party.  Stalin built a personal empire that was just for him.  This personal empire was established through his control over all levels of committee appointments.  Stalin then turned the people of the Soviet Union on his side so he could get them to vote against his rivals. In the 1930s and up, Stalin started to take charge of the political system he made, but took over as official leader of it in May of 1941.   During his dictatorship, one of his policies included having the Party maintain control over supplies so the Soviets could have a source of capital for industrialization.  Stalin then demanded that peasants should be executed, or killed off, so he could control the farms even more.  When the peasants resisted, tons of livestock were killed and tons of grain were burned so they wouldn't have to surrender their livestock or grain.  Stalin succeeded this by collecting 89.6% of the grain and having killed off 10 million peasants (“Ukrainian Famine”). Later on in his dictatorship, central planning was instituted, secret police carried out mass arrests, executions, and deportations.

The show also didn’t show the political tension of the decade. One of the if not the biggest political tension of this time was McCarthyism. This was what really sent off the red scare. In 1950 Senator McCarthy gave a speech where he said he knew 205 communist who worked for the Department of State. He reported 81 cases the day of his speech and skipped many numbers and repeated the same flimsy evidence. The Senate called for a full investigation and many peoples lives was ruined due to all the false accusations. All of this lasted until 1954 when McCarthy attacked the military with his claims and the military questioned McCarthy's methods and credibility. Then poll after poll the citizens turned on McCarthy, then McCarthy’s colleagues censured

Communism was a very popular ideology which was in great favor during the inter-war period but in the 1980s, there was an unanticipated demise of Communism. So how can we explain the sudden collapse of communism in Europe? I would argue that there were several forces converging to the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe. Factors such as the high expenses of engaging in nuclear arms, the lost of their satellite states, the growing economic disparity in Europe and the changing attitudes and values of the younger people converged together that brought communism to the brink of collapse in Europe. The most important factor, however, was the role of Gorbachev and his

During the 1950’s, there was a great sense of political pride. Each country felt that their own way of running their countries was better than the practices used in other countries and because of this they did not want to see another country’s influences in their homeland. In this era, American democracy and Russian communism were at odds. America runs on democracy which allows the people to exercise their “freedom” (Anti Communist Propaganda). In the American society, communism is a system of international control and conformity and the act of the government taking complete control over the citizens’ freedom and property (Eisenhower).

Legacy of Communist Leaders The History of modern Russia (twentieth century) is the period of communist government. After the revolution in 1917 Russia became the first communist state, which survived until 1991. Seventy-four years of rapid changes left an enormous mark in the history of Russia. This period of history introduced us to the greatest communist leaders.

The rise to power for Joseph Stalin was difficult. Stalin started out as a poor boy whose father “was a shoemaker and an alcoholic who beat his son, and his mother was a laundress” (Joseph Stalin). Stalin, in his teen years, “earned a scholarship to attend a seminary” (Joseph Stalin) for the Georgian Orthodox Church to study their priesthood. While he was there, he secretly studied Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”. Then he started becoming interested in “movement against the Russian monarchy” (Joseph Stalin). He participated in labor demonstrations and strikes. This was just the start of Stalin’s rise to power.

The end of communism and the beginning of an era of capitalism in the Soviet Union finally led to the long-awaited feasting the Soviet citizenry had long been living frugally for. It took almost a century of enduring one to access the other. Substantially longer than what the peasants endured for their reward. Fast and feast, although motivated by different forces throughout Russian history have characterized Russian dietary habits for next to six-hundred years. Religious reasons drove pre-revolutionary Russian to forgo animal products (which they preferred to eat because they were a symbol of wealth and a delicacy) in the name of holiness and religious reverence. However, the Soviets had a much more practical, material, and ideological reason

Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin were both Bolsheviks looking to make a communist state in Russia. They both had ideals and methods that brought them to where they got to and what they had achieved. While Lenin was more of a democratic follower, and allowed inter-party discussions, he was also a great theorist of socialism. He was also a communist who focused on the temporary capitalist development of Russia. As for Stalin, he was an opportunist politician, and was also a communist mostly just for his personal benefits and gains. He had and followed socialist policies and didn’t have the best personality and attitude, he was quite rude and disgraceful. These two leaders were mainly shaped into who they were due to their past, by comparing them, it will show if their pasts affected their ideology and methods as how different it was, also seeing how with the similar aims, how with their different attitudes and personality, they were able to

In both “Wage Labour and Capital,” and “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” one could see a common theme being portrayed by Marx, (and Engels,) on the idea that a capitalist society leads to the government owning the middle class people. This idea is explained through the fact that when someone works for a company and is being paid monetarily, that government is thus paying for you. Marx is claiming that you, and all other people under a capitalist nation, are owned by the government. Marx explains that in order to have good workers, you must pay them a substantial enough amount to be able to afford necessities such as food, shelter, and healthcare. Without being able to afford these things, the employers work would be diminished. Unfortunately, with a world of growing capitalist societies, there is a competition to remain at the top, which leads to smaller salaries to their workers. This, of course, then leads to poor work quality, and a melancholy society.

Everyone would like to live in a perfect society, and in Germany, Karl Marx set out to do just that by creating the government system known as Communism. Though, this system has failed in many countries all over the world because of many significant flaws in the very foundation of the system. Some of the most feared probabilities in society that Communism was created to eliminate still prevailed and were at the heart of the system’s downfall. If the system was infallible, why were so many of its principles created out of the fear of rebellion? The living conditions of the people were unbearable and would lead to nothing but rebellion. The whole system was full of corruption and had no moral standards. Communism has failed in many countries

The command system, which is also described as Marxism, socialism, or communism, is both a political and economic philosophy. In a communist economy, the government owns most of the firms, subsequently controlling production and allocation of resources. One of the most well-known and well-documented cases of a communist government took place in the Soviet Union, beginning in 1917 and eventually falling in 1992. Idealistically, communism eliminates social classism and provides equal work for all in a particular society. The government appoints a central planning board to “determine production goals for each enterprise and to specify the amount of resources to be allocated to each enterprise so that it can reach its production goals.”

When you are in a revolution as large as the Bolsheviks were in Russia, it can be reasonably expected that everyone in their group is in on it. There are a myriad of different opinions possible but if you were a member of the Communist party, you would think you would be expected to commit to and follow communist beliefs. In the article “Paper Communists” Gayle Lonergan, from the University of Oxford, paints a picture of men who saw the communist party as a way out. She documents how many men saw “such benefits as preferential food rations and free health care” (p. 139)(1) and wanted to have the opportunity to get out of the farm country. Lonergan also argues the key issue of how much of the communist population was actually committed to