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Communism
Communism is a political philosophy that is defined by a classless society in which all goods and property are collectively owned. Some current communist countries include China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
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What role did Stalin serve under Lenin?
Stalin had many roles under Lenin. In 1917, with Lenin in exile in Switzerland, Stalin (with Lev Kamenev) ran the Bolshevik Party until April when Lenin returned. Stalin also led the Party when Lenin was in hiding in Finland after the abortive attempted Bolshevik coup in July. He was one of five leaders of the Military Revolutionary Centre, which became the armed force that backed up the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. Perhaps his most important position was as Peoples Commissar for Nationalities, which allowed him access to many Bolshevik leaders. He made many alliances which later helped him oust Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin as rivals for succession in leadership of the Communist Party after Lenin's death in 1924. In 1922 after the Eighth Party Congress, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Did communism improve life for the average soviet citizen?
yes it did for most of its 70 years of reign
Who wasn't common to both fascism and communism?
There is pretty much no historical figure who was both a fascist and communist in the true meaning of those words. Some today consider the Chinese Communist Party to be a Fascist Government, but this mistakes the name "Communist" as having anything to do with Marxist Doctrine and mistakes Fascist as purely being authoritarian and corporatist as opposed to its ideological bases as well.
What was an actual social result of communism in countries such as the former USSR?
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.
Which statement about the lives of people under communism is not true?
they had the right to speak freely and worship as they chose.
In Marx's communism is everyone paid the same amount of money regardless of job?
In Marx's communist paradigm, all jobs, regardless or skill level or degree of professional and educational experience, receive the same salary. This system was developed to sustain a sense of economical parity between all people and to eliminate the phenomena of stratification based on income endemic to capitalist class structures.
What was the modified capitalist system Lenin used to avoid economic disaster?
Lenin called it the "New Economic Policy." It was more of a modification of the socialist system, which Lenin had imposed on the country than a modification of the former capitalist system.
What is the name of the first republic formed after the Bolshevik Revolution?
The name of the first republic after the Bolshevik Revolution was the "Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic." After the independent republics of Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) agreed to unite with the RSFSR in 1924, the name became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. or USSR.
Should the US support communism?
No both the Europen countries and the U.S.A should never support communism.
Why not? What's wrong with Communism?
Read a book about it before you answer that question (and not by an American author, they will not give the truth)
I agree with Miyzaki above me here, yeah what's wrong with Communism, just because the USSR made a few mistakes which gave them a bad impression, it doesn't mean it's wrong. What makes the "West's" ideology of Capitalism so perfect and superior that they think it is correct. Yeah its okay for the middle and upper class because they can just spend their money on whatever they want and still want more, but what about the other segment of society who are suffering in poverty. I'm from the UK but I do agree that the US should support Communsim, however that would never work with your current government or any other governments in Europe because they are too deeply rooted into the priniciples of Capitalism, unless there is a Communist Revolution like the Bolsheviks and Fidel Castro created.
Karl Marx was the creator of the economic & political system called Communism. In the middle of the 19th century Karl Marx, a German writer and economist founded what many historians call modern socialism. He was exiled from Prussia when the so-called 1848 Revolution failed in Europe and he settled in England.
Marx wrote several books that he believed was the solution to the exploitation of workers in the industrialized nations in Europe. He co-authored the Communist Manifesto with German industrialist Friedrich Engels. This was published in 1848. Marx's "socialism" was different from classical socialist thought. He believed that the socialists of Europe and eventually the Fabien Socialists of England were not propagandizing a real solution to the Capitalist economic system. The socialists that envisioned a peaceful transition from Capitalism to Socialism was an Utopian dream. Marx's version of placing the means of production in the hands of the proletarian workers called for a violent revolution. Marx followed the Communist Manifesto with an economic tome titled Das Kapital. Then later his Critique of Political Economy was published. the revolution however had to be in an industrial country that had a large population of workers and labor unions that understood his economics. England and Germany were the nations he & Engels believed had the best chance of success. As history tells us, no industrial nation ever had a revolution of the proletariat. Russia and later China were unsuitable for the eventual revolution as their economies were based on agriculture, not the numbers of workers & the industry they supported.
What was the name of Lenin's mini capitalism plan to help Russia's economy recover?
The New Economic Policy was Lenin's plan to reintroduce some aspects of capitalism into the socialistic Russian economy in an effort to rebuild the Russian economy.
Who became director of Russia after Lenin?
Immediately after Lenin, the USSR was ruled by a triumvirate of Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, while a power struggle over supremacy went on among Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin, Grigory Zinoviev and Stalin. Eventually Stalin won over the others and became sole dictator.
What was Vladimir I Lenin's plan when he arrived in Russia?
When Lenin returned to Russia in early April 1917 right after the February Revolution, his plan was to agitate the workers, peasants and soldiers of Russia to overthrow the new Provisional Government and set up a socialist (not communist at first) government under the sole control of the Bolshevik Party. He promised them "Peace! Bread! Land!" By this he meant an end to Russia's involvement in World War I, an end to shortages of food and a redistribution of land to the peasant farmers.
What was the theory that if one country fell to communism the neighboring countries might also fall?
It was known as the "Domino Theory".
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Did Lenin abandon ideology in order to gain and consolidate power?
Lenin came to power by being a firm believer of the socialist beliefs. He told the Russian people he could give them the socialist and communist utopia. He believed in the economic and social ideologies of socialism. He promised the people "Peace, Bread, Land". If there was somebody who intended to make Russia socialist and communist, Lenin was that person.
Under the ideology of socialism there is common ownership of land. Thus Lenin gave the people the promised land. Shortly after he took power he reformed the land decree and land reform. At this point Lenin wasn't abandoning the beliefs and ideologies of socialism. By pleasing the people shortly after he took power he was gaining support. He made sure they will have a good idea of him and this will give him more power.
Under socialist ideology there should be a freedom of press and speech. The people should be free. Lenin had this ideology at first as well. Shortly after he took power though he banned the print of other parties and the newspapers became censored. He made the Bolshevik paper Pravda the main newspaper in Petrograd. By banning the other parties from expressing their views and beliefs he secured the power in his own hands and in the hands of his party. With no opposition to disrupt the Bolshevik power, Lenin could only gain power.
"All power to the soviets" was one of the ideology's Lenin had in the time of the revolution, yet shortly after the Bolsheviks took power the Soviets didn't have "all power". The Bolshevik party and Lenin controlled most of the country's affairs and relations. What Lenin had ideologically promised the Russian people in the time of the revolution wasn't what he was giving the now. Why did Lenin do this? The answer is obvious. Lenin couldn't risk giving all power to the soviets and the people. The soviets at that point in time were so large that if they did have the power could easily have the ability to overthrow Bolshevik power and all the idea of the revolution and socialism. The majority in the soviets was not even Bolshevik party members and thus giving the "all power" would be like handing over all power to another party.
The ideology of socialism believes in the utopia and the perfect society. Previously in the time of the Tsar the people wanted to get rid of the law of execution without trial. Lenin promised and believed that should be changed. Every arrest and execution should go with a legit trial. This ideology wasn't fulfilled. The secret police in the time of Lenin, the Cheka had the right to execute arrest and even torture without trial. This meant that Lenin could have a good grip on those who opposed him. This also lead to the fear factor which in a way kept the everyday people and society on their toes and made them unthreatening to Lenin's power.
In the time of the Russian civil war, and Lenin's early days as ruler. Russia had the economic policy of War Communism. This policy was ideology correct according to the ideas and beliefs of communism and socialism. This policy however wasn't successful, it lead to famine and wasn't improving Russia's economy or living standard.
What promised to help any country fighting communism?
in 1947, the truman doctrine said that we would support "free peoples who are resisting attempter subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures" specifically greece and turkey at that time. he gave those countries $400 million to help fight communism, but the US did not help hungary when they were revolting against communism in 1956.
Why is Lenin considered the father of the Russian Revolution?
He is the father of the second, November Revolution, because he lead the Bolsheviks while they tried to take over.
What cultures practice pantheism?
Pantheism is a set of beliefs or religious principles about religion, that involve the identifying with a deity (god, goddess, nature) in the universe. ALSO, it implies that 'god' is in everything and is everthing.* Very few cultures in the modern world practice a pantheistic world view; mainly because the major religions have overwhelmed the other views and technology totally militates against even dalliance with the notion. To find cultures which practiced pantheism, one has to drop back a few hundred years, generally and go to primitive cultures or belief systems. Pantheism simply cannot coexist with the cell phone unless one can grasp Arthur C. Clarke's notion that techology in the presence of a primitive people (us, at the proper times) will seem to be magic. ('Seem' not 'appear.') There are no current cultures of more than a few thousand individuals who practice a pantheistic world view. And that's because they dont have access to cell phones. * Very easy in all of this to get tied into Deism, Theism, and other -isms. Check out the links, before being satisfied.
Why does Lenin consider his dictatorship of the proletariat to be preferable?
Lenin's "dictatorship of the proletariat" was never like Karl Marx's version. Lenin's dictatorship was preferable to him because he felt that the "proletariat" of Russia were not sufficiently aware of their class status as proletariat. He felt they needed a strong government run by a small group of people (the Bolsheviks/Communists) who would prevent them from trying to reverse the revolutionary gains of the revolution. If "his" version of the dictatorship of the proletariat were to be turned over to the workers of Russia in general as Marx had wanted, the people might have wanted a return to capitalism and an overthrow of socialism.
What was Lenin's plan when he arrived Russia?
When Lenin returned to Russia in early April 1917 right after the February Revolution, his plan was to agitate the workers, peasants and soldiers of Russia to overthrow the new Provisional Government and set up a socialist (not communist at first) government under the sole control of the Bolshevik Party. He promised them "Peace! Bread! Land!" By this he meant an end to Russia's involvement in World War I, an end to shortages of food and a redistribution of land to the peasant farmers.
What were stalin's goals and what steps did he take to achieve them?
Obviously your dumb because why else would you be on this sight that's why I'm here I hate reading the books
