Costs Outweighing benefits from Communism in the 20th Century Leading to a Negative Society

Communism found its political and philosophical roots in the nineteenth century within European socialism, inspired by the teachings of Karl Marx. Communion is commonly associated with negative insights and attributes and surrounding the costs in communism which were much greater than the benefits it gained. This idea was furthered developed by Voltaire Lenin in the Bolshevik Revolution and was made widespread when Joseph Stalin came to power.

By far the most significant were the Soviet Union, the World’s largest country in size, and China, the world’s longest country in population. (930) The Soviet Communist Party was a large, monopolistic ruling party that dominates the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the Soviet Union from the mid to late 1900’s. The Chinese communism is still shown through the ideology and factors contributed to the conditions of society and how they have greatly increased into the time that ruler Mao was in power and had both costs and benefits in their communist regimes. In efforts to build communism in the Soviet Union and China in the 20th Century the rise of communism in both countries arose but its cost outweighed its benefits. Several documents will be displayed throughout this essay including historical context in the events leading through the Soviet Union and China, including the First Five-Year Plan, collectivization, experiencing Stalinism, feminism, famine, and nationalism.

While undertaking the time of Soviet regime it aimed in a long and formative period in which communism was fast spreading and rose to power in the 20th century. From the 1960s to the 1970s the communist elite gained wealth and power. The sources provided through out, indeed bring us to see something of the Stalinist vision for the country as well as to gain some insight into the lives of ordinary people as they experienced what historians have to call simply Stalinism Its cost revealed through collectivization. Obtained in the article Branded Kulaks and Dispossessed writer Dubova reflected the thway collectivization took away the farms and caused a great result of famine. Many were opposed into joining the kolkhoz but through 1928-1929 they were forced. In this communistically society the cost Dubova paid by having much taken away from him from his land, his animals, and overall everything he had had and owned. The ones who stayed in the destruction resented the regimentation, often branding their role as slavery or even a second serfdom. (Strayer 1212). Living through collectivization, evidence from the demand from government of collective farms resulted in the support for industrial drive. The cost culminated to severe famine and led to the millions of deaths of workers. Weighing into the costs the market was in downfall. Through no individual freedom or financial freedom. Evidence of costs came from the phenomenon in the historical context of Soviet communism in regard to Arrest and Interrogation during the period of 1937. Irina Kahovskaya was a woman who was violently arrested from her apartment and taken to prison and was disregarded the resource to light, air, food, rest, medical care, warmth, toilet facilities and much more. This severe length of interrogation led to the dehumanization and furthermore of rights leading to the lack of freedom and overwhelming the cost leading back to the society union in what’s announced as the Stalinist Terror. (1222). Millions of people were tied into this vast process in were it was tactics like these that allowed Stalin to have such direct control over his people and result in the cost outweighing the gains for the build in communism in the Soviet Union society. In addition to the rein of the Soviet Union, China also had a prominent communist presence displayed.