Communism in the Soviet Union and Why It FailedCommunism is defined as "a system of political and economic organization in which property is owned by the community and all citizens share in the enjoyment of its goods". common wealth, more or less according to their need." In 1917, with the rise to power of the Marxist-inspired Bolsheviks in Russia, together with the consolidation of power by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the word communism came to mean a system totalitarian controlled by a single political party. This has come to justify that the means of production are controlled and wealth is distributed with the aim of producing a classless or possibly stateless society was born 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 the present era, and an exploited class, the workers, would enter a crucial phase in the period of capitalism in which industrialization occurs and that the effect of industrialization is to increase and intensify the internal contradictions of capitalism." To put it bluntly, they believed that ownership of industry would would have been in fewer and fewer hands and the workers would have been plunged into a state of ever-increasing poverty. These impoverished workers grow in number and organize themselves into a political party that would lead a revolution in which they would get rid of the capitalists. The proletariat would establish a society governed by a “dictatorship of the proletariat” based on the common ownership of wealth. According to Marx, this phase of human society is called socialism. Communism is the final transcendence of this revolution in which there is the disintegration and elimination of the State and no division into classes. This is the main reason why it was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1991 the Soviet Union collapses. What was the problem with this system of government, if this is a workers 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 initiated the entire transition to a communist empire was... middle of paper... and lacked spark. The respect and fear they once engendered were rapidly diminishing in an increasingly young and educated country. This weakness of political dissent within the Soviet Union was also important to the crisis. He planted the seeds of anti-totalitarianism and anti-communism in his native soil. The potential for political action in the community has also fallen to historic lows. The last problem they encountered was in their relationships with other nations and ethnic groups. This may have been the most powerful flaw in their system. Non-Russian ethnic regions consisting of developed peasant cultures. These groups were able to resist subordination to Russian culture or immersion in the Soviet state with surprising strength. This lack of development led to the cultivation of old ethnic identities, and the process of modernization 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 appear immediate. The countermeasures to the already failing government are what caused the nation's ultimate demise, the actions only hastened the end of communism.