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The USSR was a one-party federation formed in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. For much of its history, centralized party rule and state economic planning were central institutions; it became one of the two main Cold War superpowers.
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The Soviet Union existed from 1922 to 1991.
Communist Party rule and state-led economic planning varied across Soviet periods.
Source claims reviewed 2026-10-06.
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This position is 58.7 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
This is the largest distance from this collection’s median across the twelve axes. The collection is not a survey of public opinion.
This position is 11.9 points from this collection’s median.
This is the smallest median distance across the twelve axes; it does not establish a historical or political consensus.
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Most compatible among the 257 ideologies
Revolutionary branch of Marxism that advocates the seizure of power by a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat, with a planned economy and collectivization, serving as the foundation of the communist regimes of the 20th century.
System in which the state controls the means of production and directs the economy through central planning, promoting industrialization and welfare under strong political authority and limited popular democratic participation.
Revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, with a single party, a state-run economy, universal health and education, export of armed revolution and the new man ideal against imperialism.
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PaleolibertarianismLibertário30.2 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
Argentine revolutionary who led guerrilla warfare alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba, advocating armed struggle and revolutionary internationalism. A Cuban minister, he died trying to export revolution to Bolivia, becoming a global icon of the radical left.
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A single-party socialist state in the Caribbean, Cuba maintains a planned economy, strong state control, and universal public services, with power centralized since the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
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Under Mao, revolutionary China was a single-party communist state, with a collectivized economy and permanent mass mobilization, marked by campaigns such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
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