Using the outline I provided, please answer the following question:
Examining the period between 1917 (the year the Bolsheviks came to power) and 1989 (the year the Berlin
Wall fell), answer the following question: Did the Soviet Communist regime (1917-1991) and the Communist
regimes of the East Bloc (1945-1989) enjoy popular support? If so, how much and for how long? You must
cover the whole period (1917-1989), spending at least half of your answer on the period after 1945. In your
answer, be clear about the “when” and the “where” (i.e., in the Soviet Union during the 1930s; in
Czechoslovakia during the Communist take-over, in Poland during the 1970s, etc.). Finally, you will want to
explain why these regimes lost whatever support they had in the 1980s (which they clearly did). Why, in
other words, did Communism fail?