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A six page paper which considers some of the reasons which state dictatorships do not succeed, with particular reference to the Maoist regime in China.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
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In order to investigate why dictatorships tend eventually to collapse, particularly with
regard to the Maoist era in China, it is useful to consider some of the characteristics of a state dictatorship, the ways in which it differs from a democracy, and
the respective merits and shortcomings of the two systems.
As Kropotkin (2001) points out, a major reason for the deterioration of the socialist Russian revolution into dictatorship was the fact the original concept
of workers soviets, or councils, was almost immediately overtaken by centralisation and the growth of the Party apparatus. Since the regional soviets were composed of those who played the major
part in the production of goods - the agricultural workers, urban workers and to some extent the military - it was appropriate that they should have the primary say in
the way that the political and economic development of the country was structured.
At the time of the 1917 revolution, it appeared that this would be the case, since the Czar had
been overthrown, the Petrograd Soviet had the command of the military and it appeared that the Provisional Government, which had demonstrated itself to be somewhat powerless and ineffective, would be
succeeded by the rule of the soviets. In this way, the interests of the people as a whole rather than that of the nobility, or of centralised government, would prevail.
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