To what extent was socialism better in dealing with social, economical and political problems in the USSR than democracy was in the United States

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To what extent was socialism better in dealing with social, political and economical issues in the USSR than democracy was in the USA?

        The ideology in the USSR under Stalin was socialism in one country. The ideology in the U.S. was that of democracy/capitalism and rugged individualism. Both ideologies highly contrast each other and can be seen in a positive or negative light.

Socialism was a more successful ideology in dealing with social, political and economical issues in the USSR to a large extent than democracy was in the USA but to a small extent democracy in the USA was a more successful ideology in dealing with these issues.

        To a small extent it was democracy in the US that was the more successful ideology especially concerning social issues. Under democracy citizens of the US enjoyed freedom of speech as well as other guaranteed human rights. With socialism in the USSR these rights did not exist. To fulfill Stalin’s 5 year plans, labor camps called gulags were set up where the workers or prisoners were subject to forced labor under harsh conditions. As well Stalin treated the Kulak families brutally as supported by historian Professor Sorlin in the book Twentieth-Century History: The world since 1900, who estimated that three million of the Kulaks were killed. Economically the Boom during the 1920’s in the USA made many American’s rich but since the government did not interfere with the economy it started to decline in the late 1020’s due to overproduction.  Under Stalin and socialism there was widespread famine in the USSR and oil was the only resource that had hit its production target in the first five year plan.  Politically both the democratic government of the US was stable. It believed in rugged individualism and had a laissez faire attitude towards the economy which led to its prosperity in the 1920’s during the economic boom However socialism being an extremist government soon turned to totalitarianism under Stalin and controlled all sectors in society.

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        Politically the USSR was an established strong socialist state. As well it had a lot of influence on other left-wing dictatorships in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. The capitalistic ideology in the United States proved to be the unsuccessful ideology since the government failed to interfere with the economy leading to the stock market crash on October 29, 1929.

Socialism was successful in dealing with social issues since under socialism all ranks or classes in society were abolished. Everyone was considered equal, even women were viewed as equal to men. Since women too were able to enter the ...

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