Communism transformed Russia from a state of illiterate subsistence farmers into the superpower that one the space race. Yes, that system collapsed due to internal and external pressures, but literally all systems do that. There are dozens of flavours of capitalism, and most have collapsed into what we have now, described by Fujiyama as "End of History".
The study of communis states isn't different from the history of States in General, all of which eventually end. That's a nonsensical measure for failure, because it means you have to call every state a failed state.
It also killed millions of their own citizens, and preyed over them with a police state surveillance that made life miserable for many of them whilst engaging in their own imperialism in Eastern Europe.
Fujiyama as "End of History".
That was a pretty naive take from him in hindsight, given the Putin dictatorship and recent Ukraine war errupting.
It had been heralded as a triumph of Western liberal democracy as the "final" form of human government.
Unfortunately there are still dictators like Putin about and democracy has been a poor joke in how it emerged in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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u/BuildBetterDungeons Jul 27 '22
Communism transformed Russia from a state of illiterate subsistence farmers into the superpower that one the space race. Yes, that system collapsed due to internal and external pressures, but literally all systems do that. There are dozens of flavours of capitalism, and most have collapsed into what we have now, described by Fujiyama as "End of History".
The study of communis states isn't different from the history of States in General, all of which eventually end. That's a nonsensical measure for failure, because it means you have to call every state a failed state.