Economic and Political Factors That Term Paper

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With Eastern European nations enticed by the financial aid and political support that the U.S. And Britain provided, it became easier for them to weaken the hold of Communism. Furthermore, because Communism and a socialist economy were still in its infancy, the effects of a proletarian-led society did not bring out the expected results among these Communist nations. In effect, primarily due to the strong political influence and economic power of the U.S. And Britain, they were able to push through their anti-Communist program, providing military support through the provision of soldiers and weaponry for nations divided between Communism and capitalism.

A deeper analysis of the economic state of the Soviet Union during the rise of Communism also helps to further understand how it eventually failed to create a new social order in the modern period. Post-war Eastern Europe was driven with poverty and scarcity of its basic resources; thus, its nations were weak not only politically, but also economically. When the Soviet Union implemented a Communist society, agricultural was its base industry, thereby generating almost all its financial resources and fund from it. And because a socialist economy posits that no private property should be kept, all resources and possession were owned and regulated by the government.

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It is also the government that regulates the flow of financial resources, giving them control in allocating and distributing these funds.

Because during the Cold War, the space race had been the primary determinant between the American and Soviet power, the latter had infused majority of its financial resources to the development of new technologies that would make Soviet space travel better and far more superior than the Americans. As the Soviet Union aimed to become better than the Americans, preoccupation with the development of space travel technology intensified, thereby channeling all the Soviet Union's funds to the space race instead of properly compensating the farmers for their work and role as primary producers and contributors to the economy. It is therefore inevitable that people's morale weakened and the principles of Communism began crumbling because of poverty and socio-political unrest not only among nations, but among the citizenry of Communist nations as well. Thus, economic and political factors had contributed to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, thereby strengthening the influence of the Modernist Project, propelling capitalism to become the dominant socio-economic order of most societies at present......

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