Soviet model
USSR ideal type
The Soviet model is the political and economic system developed in the USSR under Stalin and exported to allied states: centralized planning, state ownership of production, single-party rule, and suppression of dissent.
The term usually appears in discussions of Cold War history or comparisons with market economies: Cuba followed the Soviet model for decades.
Countries may adopt elements selectively—the economic structure without the political repression, or vice versa.
- one-party systemSole ruling faction
- Warsaw PactSoviet-led military alliance
- Eastern BlocUSSR-aligned European nations
- centralized planningAuthority directs all economic activity
- five-year plansStrategies spanning sixty months
collectivization · bread lines · Marxism-Leninism · satellite states · Cold War · Red Army · command economy · hammer · gulags · ideological control · state propaganda · human rights abuses · secret police · central committee · party congress · public housing projects · uniform · purges
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet modellaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
free enterprise · neoliberalism · mixed economy · capitalism · free market economy
Soviet modelliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
parliamentary democracy · constitutional democracy · open society · democratic governance · federalism
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