Soviet Union: Doomed to Fail

Not since the French Revolution did such a tremendous political shift affect a nation as much in Russia. With the fall of the Czarist structure, the new Soviet government attempted to build a government based on a treatise that had never been practically applied. As the Soviet government began to rebuild the Soviet governmental and economic institutions, it was faced with a domestic civil war coupled with foreign intervention. Because of these extreme circumstances, coupled with the damage of the First World War, the Soviet Union was doomed to failure.

In order to compensate for the ill-effects of the Russian Civil War, the Reds headed by Lenin instituted a policy deemed War Communism. This strategy forced the farmers of the countryland to bankroll the Reds by their products. Russia during this period had a tremendous amount of peasants, which were considered petty bourgeoisie by the Communists. With such a forceful levy on the backbone of the Russian economy, resentment was a easy byproduct. When confronted with the reality that their hard work was going to be confiscated, peasants had an incentive to hide their true output and lie to government agents. With a reinforcing of lying due to government overbearance, a system of dishonesty was sewn into the Soviet mindset.

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