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
Corruption and opportunism slowly infiltrated the party after Khrushchevs coup (see the “anti party group”, aka principled MLs like Molotov who tried to vote Khrushchev out, so he got the tanks and staged a coup). His revisionist “destalinization” filled the party with opportunists and corrupts, whose only merit was “hating Stalin hard enough”. Also the liberal reforms made in the 1970s were bad, since they delegated economic power to the directors of enterprises, increasing corruption. They should have automated the central plan instead, using the OGAS or the Cybersyn projects as basis for it.