Developed socialism
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Developed socialism(‹See Tfd›Russian:Развито́й социали́зм), formallydeveloped socialist society,is according toMarxism–Leninisma stage in thesocialist mode of productionthat theSoviet Unionclaimed to have reached in 1961.[1]No othercommunist statehas claimed to have reached this stage.[2]The class system of developed socialism is thesocialist state of the whole people,which emerges during this stage of development.[3]
According to Soviet party ideologue and member of theCentral Committeeof theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU)Aleksei Rumyantsev,this stage was "characterised by the advanced, dynamic maturity of socialism as an integral social system, the complete realisation of its objective laws and advantages, and its progress towards thehigher phase of communism."[4]This concept began to be questioned afterLeonid Brezhnev's death in 1982 when his successorYuri Andropovmade it clear that the Soviet Union had only reached the beginning of a "long historical stage" of developed socialism and the task remained to "perfect" it. "[5]The term was used sparingly underMikhail Gorbachev,and theCPSU programmeadopted by the27th Congressin 1986 only noted that the Soviet Union "had entered the stage of developed socialism" in 1961.[6]At the 27th Congress, Gorbachev revealed that many wanted to discard the concept altogether while others wanted a more extensive exploration of it. The adopted programme was, in this sense, a compromise, stating that the Soviet Union had entered the stage of developed socialism and not that it was a developed socialist society.[6]
References
[edit]- ^Rumyantsev 1984,p. 68;Evans, Jr. 1993,p. 156.
- ^Evans, Jr. 1993,pp. 155–156.
- ^Rumyantsev 1984,p. 253.
- ^Rumyantsev 1984,p. 68.
- ^Evans, Jr. 1993,p. 153;Sandle 2005,p. 274.
- ^abEvans, Jr. 1993,p. 156.
Bibliography
[edit]- Evans, Jr., Alfred B. (1993).Soviet Marxism–Leninism: The Decline of an Ideology.Greenwood Publishing Group.ISBN0-275-94549-9.
- Rumyantsev, Aleksei Matveyevich(1984).A Dictionary of Scientific Socialism.Progress Publishers.
- Sandle, Mark (2005).A Short History of Soviet Socialism.University College London Press.ISBN0-203-55919-3.