How Did The Soviet Union Organize Communism?

The Soviet Union strategic decision was to expand communism not only on the European continent but as well as across the international system. This was apparent following the West intervention in the Russian Civil War that the Soviet Union would support communist revolutionary groups advocated for an overthrow of Western liberal capitalist regimes and established a communist state. In phase I (1917-1941) and phase III (1945-1985), the Soviet Union would attempt to undermine Western regimes, through intensive propaganda and subversion techniques. Specifically, during the Cold War (phase III), USSR financed communist political organization to overthrow closely associated Western states in order to advance their communist struggle against capitalism.
The key decision makers in the Soviet Union were members inside the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The CPSU was the sole party in power in Russia that predates from the October Revolution until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The CPSU founding member was Vladimir Lenin, who would be the central figure of the CPSU’s Marxist-Leninist ideology to advance the goals of socialism not in the Soviet Union but around the world. Even though the CPSU had established institutions such as the Party Congress, the Central Committee and the Politburo, the party leader, known as the General Secretariat holds absolute power inside the Communist state. This became evident after Lenin death, Joseph Stalin (1922-1953) consolidated his power and become the one-man brutal dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Following Stalin death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964) would be elected to become the head of the party. Khrushchev would be important decision maker in the Soviet Union as in 1956 started the process of de-Stalinization in which implemented reforms to denounce the previous brutal regime. In addition, de-Stalinization marks the period