Questions tagged [communism]
An ideology derived from socialist theory of the nineteenth century. Communism defines a condition in which socialist development has lead to the virtual elimination of economic class. This is ultimately achieved by worker ownership and control of the means of production (defined as the tools & facilities which produce goods). Throughout the 20th century multiple nation states claimed either to have achieved communism or to have been developing it.
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When (if ever) did common people address each other as "comrade" in China and Russia/the Soviet Union?
Hollywood gives us fictional portrayals of Soviet officers prepending "Comrade" to other titles in, for example, the fictional film The Hunt for Red October set in 1984. Decades ago I'd read ...
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Where can I find information about the commune between Sochi and Khosta that was closed in 1929?
In The Gulag Archipelago (by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translation by Thomas P. Whitney) one can find the following lines:
Non-Orthodox sects were also under constant attack, even those sympathetic to ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices?
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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How did USSR's Gosplan enforce fixed prices? [duplicate]
Госплан (State Committee on Prices and Material and Technical Supply) was USSR's central planning agency that fixed prices. How exactly did the prices it determined trickle down to local retailers? ...
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Did systematic purges occur in post-WW2 communist states?
For the purposes of this question, I define "systematic purges" as government-sponsored campaigns of repression that:
Affected at least 3% of the total population. This threshold aims to
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Why was Russia's transition into capitalism so horrible and filled with suffering for the people? [closed]
I have recently found out that Russia had around 1000% inflation during the 90s. Obviously, it seems related to the fall of communism.
However, I also realized that China's transition to capitalism ...
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Were any members clergy (priests, rabbis, or imams) in the USSR members of Communist party or KGB operatives?
Inspired by question Were there in the USSR monasteries decorated with Soviet orders?. Although religion was contrary to the dominant Marxist ideology (but see Christian Communism), it was tolerated ...
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Was there communist opposition to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
I was told to come here from Politics SE so this is a repost.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government. This obviously led to much ...
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What is the origin of the quote "Educated individuals are good for all of society." [closed]
In this video by Babylon Bee (at 1:16), the lady claims that either Che Guevara or Karl Marx said something along the lines of "Educated individuals are good for all of society.". Is that ...
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Ranking Eastern Europe Communist regimes by severity of repression [closed]
I was wondering that the severity of repression, censorship, economic stagnation must have varied greatly across the Eastern bloc countries between 1945-1990. It may even have varied over the years in ...
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Why did the communist Khmer Rouge use a religious image in their flag?
The Khmer Rouge, or the Communist Party of Kampuchea, used this flag:
It features the Angkor Wat, a famous Buddhist temple with a Hindu origin.
As far as I have been able to understand, the symbol ...
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Did Bolsheviks try to foster socialist revolution in Europe?
At the moment of the Socialist Revolution (or coup d'état) in October/November 1917 Russia was still mostly an agrarian society, whereas Marxist theory predicted Socialist revolutions in developed ...
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Is Wikipedia's identification of Lebed an error?
Speaking of the Alexander Yakovlev's conflict with the hardcore communists, the Wikipedia article says:
In the early 1980s, Yakovlev returned to the Soviet Union, and became a prominent supporter of ...
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Why would people join a bloc party?
In the former Soviet Union satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe, apart from the ruling Communist Party, there were bloc parties, to give a façade of democracy. I can understand the interest ...
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Did Western governments object to repression of western communists during Stalinism? [closed]
I am interested in the repression of western communists (traveling to or residing in the USSR) during the Stalin era. How extensive was it? What were the justifications from the Soviet point of view? ...
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