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What was an actual social result of communism in countries such as the former USSR?
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∙ 8y ago
This is the kind of question that whole learned books are being written about and which would require an answer dealing with countless aspects of Russian life and mind.
A very brief and not all-too-scientific answer would be that is has been negligible. Basically Communism in Russia built on a culture dating back to the earliest days of Russian culture, where there had always been autocrats with unlimited power ruling over a people that were largely peasants and serfs with a very fatalistic outlook on life.
Communism replaced an autocratic Tsar by autocratic leaders like Stalin and replaced the priviliged nobility with priviliged Party Members; all this while the Tsar's Secret Service and riot troops changed in name only. Well, with the difference that the Tsarist Secret Service was sometimes charmingly inept while the Communist Secret Service was ruthlessly efficient. And banishment to Siberia in Tsarist times was a walk in the park compared with living conditions in Communist Gulags in Siberia.
Peoples' outlook to life and work and the future remained largely the same as they have always been - fatalistic. Even today, Vladimir Putin is widely admired in Russia for being a strongman and the Russian Parliament is content to be a rubber-stamp machine for the Government. Putin again has around him a set of 'priviliged' people that are allowed to acquire vast riches. And since Putin cleverly makes sure that no one acquires those riches completely honestly, they all live under a comparable Tsarist/Communist sword of Damocles that their riches and freedom may at any time be taken away again. People accepted under the Tsars, then under Communism and now under Putin that , in the words of one Russian, "nothing is real, everything is possible". Today there are Russian people, many young and intellectual, who will fight for a 'freer' country with better protection under the law and better constraints to power. But of course they were there as well under the Tsars and although less so, under Communism.
Alden Kling
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∙ 8y agoThis is the kind of question that whole learned books are being written about and which would require an answer dealing with countless aspects of Russian life and mind.
A very brief and not all-too-scientific answer would be that is has been negligible. Basically Communism in Russia built on a culture dating back to the earliest days of Russian culture, where there had always been autocrats with unlimited power ruling over a people that were largely peasants and serfs with a very fatalistic outlook on life.
Communism replaced an autocratic Tsar by autocratic leaders like Stalin and replaced the priviliged nobility with priviliged Party Members; all this while the Tsar's Secret Service and riot troops changed in name only. Well, with the difference that the Tsarist Secret Service was sometimes charmingly inept while the Communist Secret Service was ruthlessly efficient. And banishment to Siberia in Tsarist times was a walk in the park compared with living conditions in Communist Gulags in Siberia.
Peoples' outlook to life and work and the future remained largely the same as they have always been - fatalistic. Even today, Vladimir Putin is widely admired in Russia for being a strongman and the Russian Parliament is content to be a rubber-stamp machine for the Government. Putin again has around him a set of 'priviliged' people that are allowed to acquire vast riches. And since Putin cleverly makes sure that no one acquires those riches completely honestly, they all live under a comparable Tsarist/Communist sword of Damocles that their riches and freedom may at any time be taken away again. People accepted under the Tsars, then under Communism and now under Putin that , in the words of one Russian, "nothing is real, everything is possible". Today there are Russian people, many young and intellectual, who will fight for a 'freer' country with better protection under the law and better constraints to power. But of course they were there as well under the Tsars and although less so, under Communism.
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