Communism in the Soviet Union and why it failed Communism is defined as "a system of political and economic organization in which property belongs to the community and all citizens share the enjoyment of common wealth, more or less according to their needs. » In 1917, with the rise to power of the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia as well as the consolidation of power by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the word communism came to denote a totalitarian system controlled by a single political party. This came to justify that the means of production are controlled and that wealth is distributed with the aim of producing a society without classes, or even without a state. The ideological significance of communism emerged in 1848 with the publication of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They believed that communism was inevitable and was the result of the historical process. They believed that "the struggle between an exploiting class, the capitalists of today, and an exploited class, the workers, would enter a crucial stage in the period of capitalism where industrialization occurs and the effects of industrialization are to increase and intensify the internal contradictions of capitalism. "To put it bluntly, they believed that the ownership of industry would be in fewer and fewer hands and that the workers would fall into an ever-increasing state of misery. These impoverished workers multiplied and organized themselves into a political party that would lead a revolution in which they would eliminate the capitalists. The proletariat would establish a society governed by a “dictatorship of the proletariat” based on community ownership of wealth. According to Marx, this phase of human society is called socialism. Communism is the final transcendence of that revolution in which there is a breakup and elimination of the state and no class division. This is the main reason why it was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. What was wrong with this system of government, if this is a worker's paradise, what happened? What did the Soviet Union do wrong to cause the collapse of its ideal system? In this article I will explore the rise of Soviet power and the causes of the breakup of 1991. The person who started the entire transition to a communist empire was ... middle of paper ... and lacked spark . The respect and fear they once commanded was rapidly waning in an increasingly young and educated country. This weakness of political dissent within the Soviet Union also played a significant role in the crisis. He sowed the seeds of anti-totalitarianism and anti-communism on his native soil. Additionally, the potential for political action has reached an unprecedented level in the community. The final problem they encountered was their relationships with other nations and ethnic groups. This is perhaps the most significant flaw in their system. Non-Russian ethnic regions contained underdeveloped peasant cultures. These groups were able to resist subordination to Russian culture or submersion in the Soviet state with surprising strength. This lack of development has led to the cultivation of old ethnic identities and the process of modernization has only created new tensions. The Soviet Union lost all its internal vitality, the regime's powers were still intense. Decay was probably inevitable, but disintegration did not seem immediate. The counter-actions against an already failing government are what caused the..