COMMUNISM

DEFINITION OF COMMUNISM

• A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy.
• A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property

ORIGINS OF COMMUNISM

• It was said to have started in Ancient Greek ( infoplease)
• Common property in religious groups such as Jewish Essenes ( infoplease)

THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM

• 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union (infoplease)
• The Soviet Union didn't intervene as the soviet-bloc nation of Poland, east Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.

EXAMPLES OF COMMUNISM

• One example of communism is China.Mao Zedong took control over China in 1949.
• Mao Zedong renames China People's Republic of China.
• China has the most communism in the world.

COMMUNISM TODAY

• There are currently only five communist countries in the world. China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam.