Communism is a theory advocating elimination of private property, a system in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed, a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

In a free market society, business rules the land. Either you have money or you do not. There is no government to take care of you and no sympathy for those less fortunate. Karl Marx saw this as a weakness rather than strength. He developed a theory of communism, where the people rule and everything is equally shared. Russia took to this theory and enveloped it, as it's own way of life. Were Communism and Lenin just in the right place at the right time? Why did Russia and its people take to such a way of life? What made it so appealing to them and, to soon, the rest of what would soon become the Soviet Union?

The people of Russia were looking for something new, a change from the dictator

In 1922 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was created after the end of the Russian civil war. It was lead by Joseph Stalin and originally had four countries including Russia under his power, by 1940 fifteen other countries had joined what had come to be known as the Soviet Union. Russia and the other countries that had joined the Soviet Union under a communist government had all "elected" to have this type of government for the same reasons. They had suffered huge losses during the First World War, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and W.W.II. The original communists hoped to have a classless society where there was no rich or poor, and this was what was so appealing to the people of Russia and what had become the Soviet Union.

Communism was supported mainly by the working class, the upper class and those who where rich that did not suffer great losses financially were greatly opposed to communism and its ideals. This was because they did not want to be lowered to the level of the poorer classes. This would most likely happen because the basic principals behind communism is that everyone is equal, everything is owned by the people but controlled by the state; and that nobody is different (which would prove to be one of the greater flaws that would lead to the downfall of the Communist/Soviet regime). For these reasons, this also why Communism worked for such a long time.

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