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

  • Catraism-Stalinism
    17•2 years ago

    Mostly your third point. Light industry should have been expanded on far more than anything else. There was also a lot of gangs and private markets in the latter era. There was a lot of backlog from the party not being efficiently purged to get rid of opportunists. Honestly there wasn’t enough aggressive foreign policy against the United States, they didn’t defend themselves as well as they should have.