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Write about socialism in Russia ( 50 words )

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Glasnost proved suicidal. Yet many of us still find it hard to absorb the fact that Soviet Communism has ceased to exist. As Martin Malia, of Berkeley, puts it: “Soviet history is now for the first time really history, and this closure permits us to see the pattern or `logic’ of its life course.” Malia does not mince words in his forthright and illuminating book: what Soviet history“seventy years on the road to nowhere”—was about was socialism. And how explain Bolshevik discipline and fanaticism— crucial to seizing power and winning the Civil War—without Bolshevik ideology? Thus, “in Soviet Russia, intellectuals could expropriate capitalists, execute political opponents, and muzzle reactionary ideas.” But Pipes’ work suffers from a fundamental flaw. As for Stalinist terror, it was an aberration. The results were so catastrophic that Soviet power itself was in jeopardy.   this is about socialism in russia