Essays on Communist States

The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have had great influence on the politics and the economics of Post-Communist states. This paper seeks to examine and explore US and NATO military influence in post-communist Poland and East Germany. It further analyzes the role played by the strong presence of the Soviet Republic in both Poland and East Germany in limiting as well as increasing the US and NATO military involvement in the region. Since US foreign security policy in Europe is tied to NATO, the paper will analyze the effect of the military influence of United States ...

Introduction

Communism is a revolutionary social order that seeks to create a moneyless and classless society. Communism can be regarded as the extreme expression of socialism. It is premised upon a desire to have a common ownership to all societal means of production. All means of production are controlled the state. Communism was propagated by various theories developed by distinguished scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. Leninist and Marxist theories form the backbone of the concept of communism. This concept of governance has been praised by Eastern Asian countries and adopted by China and Russia. On the other hand, Western nations have strongly ...

Communism is a revolutionary social order that seeks to create a moneyless and classless society. It can be regarded as the extreme expression of socialism. It is premised upon a desire to have a common ownership to all societal means of production which are controlled by a single entity the state. Communist was propagated by various theories developed by distinguished scholars of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Leninist and Marxist theories form the backbone of the concept of communism. This concept of governance has been praised by Eastern Asian countries and adopted by China and Russia. On the other hand, Western nations have ...

Arguably, communism is both economic and political philosophy. The term was first used in the year 1840, to describe groups in French republic endeavoring to create a society with no class and overthrow their own government. Communism has existed since then up until the present period. It is a theory that, in most cases advocates a state of society that has no private ownership, labor forces are organized for the benefit of the community as well as property ownership belong to the entire community (Lansford, 2007). Furthermore, communism is a sociopolitical movement whose aims are a stateless and classless society, in which it is ...

The Cold War

The cold war was a period when there was a protracted struggle between the United States and the Soviet immediately after the Second World War. The war was not physical per se, but an ideological, economic and geopolitical struggle which witnessed each country being supported by different allies depending on the ideologies they stood for. The cold war lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The confrontation was called the cold war because there was no direct hostility between the two major super powers at that time that is the US and the Soviet Union. Instead, the war ...