I’m doing a presentation on the soviet union for school soon and i would like to know all your opinions on this.

I’ve got: an over-bloated bureaucracy (which was prone to corruption), rural poverty (which is very unfair as basically all countries have rural poverty- difference is that some countries actually help these people), and a lacking light industry that led to economic dissatisfaction from the populace.

I might share the PowerPoint here for your feedback although its very small as its for a vocational exam that is only a few minutes

  • @SaddamHussein24
    3•2 years ago

    Power wasnt centralized at all lol (except in the Khrushchev era). Even the CIA admits Stalins powers were quite limited and power was very decentralized. Even more so during the Brezhnev era, when the “compromise principle” was applied, meaning that for every decision an agreement between all Central Committee and Politburo members would have to be reached, so as to avoid factionalist disputes.