The+Soviet+Union

__Ryan Grady__ __Mr Kennard__ __Period C__ __5/3/11__  __ //**communism**//__-a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated  by a single and self-perpetuating political party. (similar governments Marxism, socialism, fascism)

__//**Origins**//__-After the Marxism had influenced the capitalism and Imperialism states, in 1917 The **Communist Party of the Soviet Union** (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, //Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza//; short: КПСС, //KPSS//) became the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. It emerged from the Bolshevikk faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and established the world's first socialist state. Given the central role under the Constitution of the Soviet Union, the party controlled all tiers of governemnet in the Soviet Union and tolerated no opposition. Its organization was subdivided into communist parties of the constituent Soviet republics well as the mass youth organization, Komsomol.  __//**Communism in Russia**//__ Much like in any communist society, the life and movement of the people in Russia during the Cold War was controlled by the state They were denied access to television and phones, and their ability to move around in the country was very limited. they could not talk badly about the government if they did they would be sent to prison camps. There was also a great sense of patriotism, as everyone banded together to help defeat the evils of capitalism. Much like in the U.S they firmly believed that their system was the best one and they believed that communism was the perfect system, as they did not know any better.

Agricultural lands were community run creating large, state-run farms. Art and literature were placed under much tighter control, and radical energy of the Russian Avant-Garde was replaced by the solemn grandeur of Soviet realism. Religion was violently limited as churches were closed, destroyed, or converted to other uses. Stalin purged all opposition to himself within the party as well as all opposition to party policy in the country. By the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union had become a country in which life was more strictly regulated than ever before.


 * Comparing Life under Communism and in Free Countries ||  ||   ||

//__**Education**__// Education was strictly controlled by the state. In 1932, a rigid program of discipline and education was introduced. Exams, banned under Lenin were reintroduced. the government controlled how classes were run and what was taught - especially History where Stalin's part in the 1917 revolution and his relationship with Lenin was very different. Books were strictly censored by the state and Stalin ordered the writing of a new book called "A short history of the USSR" which is what students in school during the cold war learned as truth.
 * <  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">life under communism || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">life under free countries ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">**Rights** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">The needs of the whole society are more important than the rights of individuals.  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Individual rights are just as important as the needs of the whole society.  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">**Worship** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Communist teachings say that God is not necessary. Belief in the God of the Bible is forbidden or strongly discouraged. The government tries to control public worship.  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">People have more freedom to worship God the way they believe is right.  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">**Free Speech** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Government officials do not want anyone to say bad things about them, so the government controls newspapers, television stations, and radio stations.  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">People can voice their opinions, even if they want to complain about the government.  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">**Property** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Communist governments control property. Leaders might decide to let people own some businesses, but they can change their minds, because the government is still in control.  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">People have a right to own homes and businesses.  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">**Everyday Life** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">People have fewer freedoms and rights in their own homes, in electing government officials, in court, and in traveling from place to place.  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Citizens have more individual freedoms.  ||

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">in school and threw propaganda students were taught that churches were "the opium of the masses" (Karl Marx) many church leaders were arrested and many churches were closed down. Stalin saw god as a threat to his power he believed that people should not worship god but worship him <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">outside of school children were to join government run groups Octobrists for 8 to 10 year colds, Pioneers for the 10 to 16 year olds, and 19 to 23 the Komsomol <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">__//**Housing**//__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">housing was a huge problem in Russia under Stalin. in Moscow only 6% of households had more than one room. despite the increase in the industrial business the agricultural industry had stayed the same from 1929-1939 with a 40 million people population increase.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">with a huge increase in the communist secret police many neighbors turned on one another and would accuse each other of being un-loyal to the communist party. some of theses accusations were true but for the most part they were false and only accused out of jealousy or revenge. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Stalin used many aspects of propaganda including the glorification of himself almost more than communism itself. the Russian people. Stalin empathizes the kindness that the communist party showedalong with the color red wich was the color of the soviets flag <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">media type="youtube" key="D2o3FItjmxk" width="425" height="350" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">__//**soviet union compared to the usa**//__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Moscow’s subway system were build to act as a huge bomb shelter in the case of nuclear war with the United States. The Soviet citizens lived with the same fear that the Americans did. Soviet propaganda assured the Soviet citizens that the Americans were a bunch of warmongers that would launch a first strike if they let their guard down an inch throughout the whole Cold War.The average Soviet citizen was as relieved that the Americans took their finger off the launch button as the American citizens were that the Russians had taken their finger of their launch button at the end of the Cold War. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">Communism is the perfect form of governments, although many capitalist organizations such as corporate america portray it as an evil and exploitative regime. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">The primary point of difference between capitalism and communism is regarding the ownership of 'means of production' or resources in general. Communism,shuns private/individual ownership of land or any vital resources. Instead, all the 'means of production' like land and other resources should be owned by the state. Everything will be shared! All decisions about production will be made by the whole community by democratic means. There will be equal wages for all. All the decisions taken will be according to what is good for all.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">On the other hand, capitalism believes in private ownership of land and means of production. Every man will have to earn his worth. Every man will get his wages according to his merit and according to the thinking of the man who owns the means of production. Naturally the people who own the means of production, the capitalists, call the shots when it comes to decision making. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">__//**Propaganda**//__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">propaganda was used widely in the cold war on both the soviets side and the U.S side. the soviets used images of uncle sam with nukes to show how aggressive the usa in and they often showed them as a peacefull nation with hope of ending the war. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">some posters showed uncle same and nato, some of uncle same and the UN, some of the US and there military powers, some of uncle sam spying on the soviets, and others just showed how good the soviet union was not using any direct relation to the U.S

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">__//**Conclusion**//__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">all in allThe reason the party became so popular is because it appealed to the lower class and at the time a majority of russia was considered lower class.The soviet life was a horrible life to live in during the cold war, despite propaganda posters and pictures showing beautiful sites and happy people. the soviet government sencored everything that they thought to be a pro democratic of dangerous to there power. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">media type="youtube" key="mtJw9Hf5hGM" width="425" height="350"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> 1 "Categories: the end of the Soviet Union." //Junior Scholastic// 14 Mar. 2011: T-6(2). //General OneFile//. Web. 28 Apr. 2011.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">2 Hesseltine, William. "history lovers ." //Communism in Russia : : History lover//. N.p., 1-9-10. Web. 28 Apr 2011. <www.histmap.net/2010/09/01/communism-in-russia/ ->.

<span class="srcCit" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;"> 3 "Russia." //Junior Scholastic// 14 Mar. 2011: 14+. //General OneFile//. Web. 28 Apr. 2011

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">4 "the stalin project." //EVERYDAY LIFE UNDER STALIN - The Stalin Project//. national endowment for thr hummanities, 2008. Web. 29 Apr 2011. [-|www.stalinproject.com/secondary.php?id_subject=3 -].

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">5 soviet propaganda against (USA)." //english russia>> soviet propaganda against (USA)//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 May 2011. <englishrussia.com/index.php/2006/09/20/soviet-propaganda-against>.