1922- Russian Empire ---> Soviet Union
1924- Mongolia
1944- Albania
1945- Vietnam
1948- Czechoslovakia
1949- China
1959- Cuba
1967- South Yemen
1969- Somalia
1970- Congo
1974- Ethiopia
1975- Benin, Mozambique, Madagascar, Laos, Angola, Cape Verde
1978- Afghanistan
1979- Cambodia, Nicaragua, Grenada
1983- Burkina Faso
If it's not on the list, it either wasn't a communist country, or didn't experience a revolution. Thank you for reading.
you missed a bunch but also I would question the "success" in places like Somalia or Angola which never really began the process of building socialism
Afghanistan was not really a revolution
sure it was. women and minorities were in fact liberated by 1979. the problem was of course revisionism and the nature of the protracted struggle against counterrevolutionaries.
excluding the dprk but including kampuchea is a choice
where is all of Eastern Europe? czechslovakia and albania are here and I dont appreciate the insinuation, all of the post-wwii communist governments waged cultural revolution against backwards cultural forces and placed the proletariat in control of the productive forces. of course their were limits and uneven development and eventually a turn toward revisionism but these were genuine grassroots socialist movements that irrevocably changed these nations.
this is a far cry from somalia where nationalists looked toward the imperialist powers for support in their irridentist dreams and then dropped any pretense of socialism once isolated from the OAU.
sure it was. women and minorities were in fact liberated by 1979. the problem was of course revisionism and the nature of the protracted struggle against counterrevolutionaries.
Maybe on paper and in Kabul but the lack of a mass line or mass interest (the change of government was orchestrated through a coup by the army and intelligentsia and not a vanguard party with worker participation) removes the concept of it being a social revolution with true political consequence
Maybe on paper and in Kabul but the lack of a mass line or mass interest (the change of government was orchestrated through a coup by the army and intelligentsia and not a vanguard party with worker participation) removes the concept of it being a social revolution with true political consequence
again this is simply a problem of correct politics. I support practically the actions of the PDPA even if I don't support the line of the party that won out in the end. it is possible to separate the two.