El mundo comunista despues de stanlin

Gabriela Stephany Romero Antón 152763

The communist world after Stalin

When Stalin died in 1953 had left his imprint on the communist party and the nation, in other to feed the growing proletariat ( the industrial workforce) he introduced a program of rapid collectivization whereby the small and inefficient individual farms were consolidated into larger collectives ; agriculture became one of the stepchildren of the communist revolution, but this plan faced and opposition, Stalin had two choices curtail this program or pursue with force, and this became bloody civil war in the 1920s, the countryside was forced to subsidize the industrial revolution and the growth of the city.

At the end the soviet union’s dictatorship of the proletariat became a dictatorship of the party over the proletariat and the peasantry. After realized this problem, the party took another step to prevent the consolidation of the power in the hands of one person, they established a troika consisting of prime minister, foreign minister and the head of the secret police.

Inside the party had a clashed with those who sought to maintain the status quo and the ones that wanted to change the terms of the Stalinist legacy, but the reformers won and the the western visitor began to arrive something that was impossible before. And with the secret speech of Khrushchev everything started to change even more, this speech signaled the end of the arbitrary terror of Stalin, the secret police was brought under the party’s control, arbitrary arrests largely ended, censorship restrictions were partially lifted, breathing new life into the soviet union’s intellectual community. But of course, Khrushchev had their opponents, cause the most difficult time in the life of a bad government comes when it tries to reform itself.

After sometime became clear that east European communist were more interested in pursuing their own national interest, rather than serving those of the kremlin. The classic example of nationalist deviation was that of Joseph Tito, the communist ruler of Yugoslavia, he stablished his independence from Moscow. By denouncing Stalin for his mistakes and excesses particularly his crimes against party members he set the stage for the return to power of east European communist whom Stalin had imprisoned and expelled from the party , and that is how Poland followed this line too , they used this speech to justify their attempt to travel their own road toward socialism without, however, leaving the soviet camp, and they insisted on their right to take care of their own internal problems.

In Czechoslovakia , intellectual and party members continued the discussion, and introduced numerous reforms at breakneck speed, it attempted to create “socialism with a human face”, one that combined eastern-style socialism with western-style democracy. On restriction after other was lifted. The result was freedom of the press, freedom to travel, freedom from fear of the police. By the part of east Germany was because the economic gap between West and East Germany steadily grew.

And it came the las split that was the Sino-soviet, one of the main reasons is that Mao argued that the communist camp should put its new found military superiority to work to attain the final victory over capitalism, but Khrushchev , had no intention to obliging Mao and instead concluded with a reaffirmation of peaceful coexistence.

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