The Totalitarian Systems That Changed Lives

In this essay I will be writing about the totalitarian systems and how they changed people’s lives. I am going to look into detail about the totalitarian systems, their facts, their main structures, how they came to power, why they came to power and what changed after they were abolished in two specific countries. A totalitarian system or totalitarianism, as its name states ‘total’, is a form of government where the state keeps public, cultural and other aspects of life under strict control. The totalitarian systems that I will focus on and that are most “famous” are Nazism in Germany and Communism in Soviet Russia. There were also other similar totalitarian regimes which I will not be talking about.

Communism is the first totalitarian system that I will be talking about. Communism was an idea first introduced by the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is an idea in which all people are equal and there are no classes. Russia was the first communist country in the world. It was the first country to introduce communism. Communism in Russia didn’t come peacefully. There was a revolution devoted to the communist cause. The revolutions in Russia lasted from 1917-1923. It was really bloody. Vladimir Ilyic Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik (communist party). He promised the people “peace, bread and land”. He won widespread support. A civil war followed between the Red Guard and the Whites (Tsar sympathizers). Eventually the Reds won and took control over Russia. Lenin signed a treaty which pulled Russia out of the Frist World War. Russia was then a communist country. After the civil war in Russia, nearly all industry and economy were destroyed. Agricultural production was cut down by a third, destroyed and deserted facto...

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...something, especially if that idea was to reflect badly on the state, the system or the leader. We can just say that both were terrible to live in. This was one of the darkest periods of human history. If you lived in one of these countries, it was certain you had one heck of a time.

This was definitely one of the most corrupt, tough and hard times for humans. We overcame that and now we still see the losses and the terror of the totalitarian systems. The consequences of these systems are not in material greatness, but in the number of lives that had been taken, without any meaning or cause, during the time of these totalitarian systems. This was indeed one of the darkest and harshest living conditions a man could live in. People were treated like animals. No human rights were present. It lasted a lot in some cases. Eventually all bad things come to an end.