WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The political system of the Soviet Union took place in a federal single-party soviet socialist republic framework which was characterized by the superior role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only party permitted by the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-2: -From its creation, the government in the Soviet Union was based on the one-party rule of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks).

Detailed explanation-3: -The ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Bolshevist Marxism–Leninism, an ideology of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state to realise the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Within its limits, the government had responsibility for: Management of the union’s economy and socio-cultural construction and development. Formulation and submission of the five-year plans for “economic and social development” to the Supreme Soviet along with the state budget.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).