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Communism

            Contrary to the popular belief of the average American, Communism is not "evil". First of all let's explore where this popular idea came from. After the revolution in Russia in 1917 (when the Soviets gained power from the cruel Czars) the control of power in Russia was taken from the slim minority by the workers (for which Communism freed) to make life better and to keep the terrors of WWI from happening again. When we were attempting to stop Japanese aggression in China, Stalin and his comrades were not deemed to be "evil", at least not when wee needed his help. In fact, we decided not to fight the Germans from the east when cities such as Stalingrad were being destroyed, so if anything the Soviets have the right to distrust us. When we discovered that the soviets had detonated an atom bomb in 1949 we immediately branded them as evil spies when actually they were just fulfilling their greatest need for defense in the new age of technology. Had the Soviets built the first A-Bomb we would have done exactly what they had done, used our vast spy network to catch up to the Soviets (as we did after Sputnik). We (as did they) used the excuse of national defense to rationalize the arms build up of the Cold War. The Children of America were not taught that the Soviets were "evil", they were simply not told anything about Communism. People fear the unknown, and to teach that Communism was evil would be a too obvious use of propaganda. Ask anything about the Soviet Union and Communism to someone who grew up in the 1960s, you will invariably get an answer which is vaguely about government ownership of businesses and an Evil dictator. It was not until the early 1990s when the U.S.S.R. fell that people began to talk more about Communism, and even now it is still hidden in a shadow of the unknown. Communism vs. Democracy, the greatest psychological war the human race has ever faced (almost bringing the species to extinction), and it gets less than 50 pages in a 900 page American History book.


Essays Related to Communism

1. Communism East Europe

... and affairs were a state secret. Maps were inaccurate and details about past disasters and history were omitted or embellished. Propaganda and brainwashing was used to ensure that the virtues of communism were extolled and a cult following was created around Lenin and Stalin. "A Short Course on the History of the CPSU- became the staple intellectual diet of all schoolchildren. (34) This ... to realise their predicament and their backwardness. These measures continued until Gorbachev came to power. This point leads onto the most important factor which contributed to the eventual collaps...

  • Word Count: 5545
  • Approx Pages: 22
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Communism East Europe

... and affairs were a state secret. Maps were inaccurate and details about past disasters and history were omitted or embellished. Propaganda and brainwashing was used to ensure that the virtues of communism were extolled and a cult following was created around Lenin and Stalin. "A Short Course on the History of the CPSU- became the staple intellectual diet of all schoolchildren. (34) This ... to realise their predicament and their backwardness. These measures continued until Gorbachev came to power. This point leads onto the most important factor which contributed to the eventual collaps...

  • Word Count: 5545
  • Approx Pages: 22
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Communism East Europe

... and affairs were a state secret. Maps were inaccurate and details about past disasters and history were omitted or embellished. Propaganda and brainwashing was used to ensure that the virtues of communism were extolled and a cult following was created around Lenin and Stalin. "A Short Course on the History of the CPSU- became the staple intellectual diet of all schoolchildren. (34) This ... to realise their predicament and their backwardness. These measures continued until Gorbachev came to power. This point leads onto the most important factor which contributed to the eventual collaps...

  • Word Count: 5545
  • Approx Pages: 22
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Communism

... only under communist rule can there be "true" democracy, and that rule of monarchy is a depriver of democracy. They believe that monarchies make classes amongst people. They believe that under communism there will be a classless society in which all men work side by side in a spirit of unselfishness, cooperation, and fellowship (Ebenstein William 37). Although communists believe in a classless society and ... that everyone is considered equal, they allow for totalitarian governments, in which the difference in classes is clearly seen. As it was stated on the subject "In theory, communis...

  • Word Count: 2456
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. "War communism was a reaction to the wartime conditions that

... war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). In this essay I will attempt to assess the reasons for the implementation of War Communism. War communism was the policy pursued by The Bolshevik party during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920, until Lenin introduced the New Economic ... Marxism were the idea of class struggle; the tensions between the proletariat who are exploited by the bourgeoisie in the capitalist system. Under communism the proletariat would overthrow the upper classes and govern the state. Marx also believed that such political change was inevitable and that there ...

  • Word Count: 2081
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Why did Communism failed in Ea

... of Khrushchev to seek for solution in a bargain. However, this was not the end of it. Seeing the success of the Poland revolution of 1956, also with the hatred toward Communism, Hungarian uprising began (The Greenfield History © site). This was also the direct result of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization. The Hungarian sought for independent from the Communist control. The revolution was ... plan by Stalin, and the broke out of WWII, it led to the major problem of food shortage. However, the most important factor that led to the eventual collapse of communism was Gorbachev. Without him, com...

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7. America and the Fear of Communism

... , the United States pledged to support any person, anywhere, who was resisting, "armed minorities, or outside pressures", like the communists. However, Greece and Western Europe couldn't avoid the chaos of communism spreading. Many Western European countries were a mess of poverty and homeless, which led to the fear all around the world. Truman's Marshall Plan called for substantial financial assistance to rebuild ... to cooperate, because they believed that the hearing was unconstitutional. Also, they claimed the 1st Amendment, freedom of speech, religion, press and peaceful assembly pr...

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8. Communism and Democratic Capitalism

... have certain ideologies that influence our view of these systems and hopefully this research will help to test and expand those ideologies. Communism and Democracy Communism: A concept or system of society in which the major resources and means of production are owned by the community rather than by ... the Russian Revolution of 1917 the term has denoted a model that all Marxists should follow. The Russian Revolution began a shift in modern communism. Communism started moving away from Central and Eastern Europe. From the late 1940's through the 1980's communist movements were often link...

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9. Capitalism and Communism

... in which it has been implemented in such states as the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe were and are incorrectly. In general, communism in these countries has led to poverty, unrest, violations of human rights and in some cases, totalitarianism. These failures have several explanations; ... it can utilize the positive aspects of its theory. Out of the current communist states none of them have gone through the transition period to communism that Marx and Engel envisioned of the formation of a prosperous communist society. Marx believed that in order for a communist society to prop...

  • Word Count: 1453
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

10. The Plight Of Communism

... Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. Just because one country takes the communist route does not mean the rest of the world will follow. If Communism really does not work then I think Vietnam would have eventually seen this and therefore ultimately change to a democratic form of government on their ... Connecticut from 1958 to 1970. His views discussed in the following paragraphs are from his speech to the U.S. senate concerning American isolationism. Dodd believed that communism was a huge threat to America and that the spread of it should have been stopped immediately. He writes, "I disa...

  • Word Count: 1591
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

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