Question

(history wasn't in option int eh subjects)

How much control did the communist party have over the Soviet Army? How did the communist party exercise this control?

Answer 1

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was the governing and ruling party in the Soviet Union. The CPSU was the sole ruling party of the Soviet Union until 1990, when the Congress of People's Deputies amended Article 6 of the most recent Soviet constitution of 1977, which gave the CPSU a monopoly on the political system.

The party was established in 1912 by the Bolsheviks, a majority faction divided from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Movement, headed by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in the October Revolution of 1917. After 74 years, it was disbanded on the territory of the Soviet Union on 29 August 1991, shortly after the attempted coup d'état by the hard-line members of the CPSU against the Soviet president and party general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. It was officially banned on Russian territory on 6 November 1991 three months later.

A variety of factors led to the loss of power and breakup of the Soviet Union by the CPSU in the early 1990s. Several scholars have argued that Gorbachev's "glasnost" policy was the root cause, stating that it undermined the party 's dominance over society. Gorbachev argued that perestroika without glasnost was doomed to failure anyway. Some also blamed economic depression and the resulting lack of confidence of the general public in communist ideology. During the last years of the life of the CPSU, the Communist Parties of the Federal Subjects of Russia joined the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

After the dissolution of the CPSU, the Communist Parties of the Union Republics became independent and followed separate forms of change. In Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has arisen and has been known as the successor to the old Bolshevik tradition of the CPSU to this day