Essay, Research Paper: Russian Revolution

Today, when one thinks of the communist form of government,
they often think of oppression, domination and corruption. We see
that people do not have the freedom to their rights and are not
allowed to go forth and conquer their goals. However, communism in
its pure form appeared to be fair and just. The idea of communism
basically formed around the idea of equality. The people under this
rule were to have equal land, as well as equal pay. This way there
was to be no form of inequality or segregation among them. There
are many mixed feelings on the topic of communism, and I myself am
not able to tell you just what I think of it. Reading 7.2 actually
compared communism to being similar to nazism. Most every country
goes through a revolution, in order to sort everything out. There
will always be a rise and fall in a country's history and in 1917
it was Russias turn to revolt. Within this revolution communism was
certainly a strong factor, along with the suffering of the
peasants.
I believe communism in its pure form to be a good thing. I
like the fact that everyone is equal, and allowed equal
opportunities thus, no one is of a lower or higher class. Now the
only real problem with communism is that people are not born with
equal mindsets. Some people are born with the drive to succeed,
they want more things in life than what they are given and will
work hard for it. Then there are those who feel like what they have
is good enough. That is where communism will oppress the people who
want to succeed and will be helping out the people who in a normal
society would not have had much to begin with.
What happened in Russia was certainly wrong, especially since
the communism had similarities with nazism. One strong example
would be the massacre of the kulaks, who were known as the rich
peasants. From reading 7.2 it was quite evident that the kulaks
were treated like the Jews in Germany. Its terrible that these
people were discriminated against. Technically, if communism was to
make each and every being equal then there should have been no
discrimination. This though is not possible, for discrimination is
a part of life and society. Stalin certainly had many similarities
to Hitler, which is why it turned out to be alot like nazism.
It is due to what has happened in the past that gives
communism such a bad name. Since Russia has been a country where
its people have been oppressed we tend to look down upon communism.
And this is why, today communism is thought of as pure oppression,


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