they were consitutionally socialist, yet followed Marxist ideals and were a single party union ruled by the Communist Party.
Officially "soviet socialism" a step along the way in Lenin's theory of reaching Marxist Communism. Actually totalitarian Dictatorship.
Monarchic rule until 1917 when the revolutions occurred and Russia shifted to Communism.
State capitalist dictatorship, where the sate owned the main means of production.
a planned or command economy
The US economy is based on a 'free enterprise' or 'free market' system although the US Government has a lot of economic rules and regulations that it enforces. But basically the US has a so-called 'market economy'. The Communist USSR had a 'planned economy' which meant that all economic activities, often down to specific output levels for products, were centrally planned ahead by the USSR Government, usually for five-year periods.
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capitalism
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America, Canada,
The US economy is based on a 'free enterprise' or 'free market' system although the US Government has a lot of economic rules and regulations that it enforces. But basically the US has a so-called 'market economy'. The Communist USSR had a 'planned economy' which meant that all economic activities, often down to specific output levels for products, were centrally planned ahead by the USSR Government, usually for five-year periods.
1. The United States, as a nation, still exists; the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. 2. The United States economic policies are based on the ideas of a free market and capitalism. The USSR implemented a fixed economy based on the ideas of Socialism. 3. The US has a two party political system; Republican and Democratic. The USSR had a single party system; The Communist Party. 4. Although having no state religion the US defines itself as a christian nation. The USSR was an atheist nation.
Feudalism
They are not considered to be parties. Capitalism is an economic system, Communism is a political ideology that aims for a post-capitalist economic system. There are Communist parties, which claim to want to build a communist system eventually. There are no parties with the name capitalist, because we currently live in a capitalist society. Basically, all political parties are capitalist - they are all parties of capitalism.
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America, Canada,
Feudalism.