Intikhab’s Reviews > The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century > Status Update

In brief, the fatal dilemma of the communist system in the Soviet Union is that its economic success can only be purchased at the cost of political stability, while its political stability can only be sustained at the cost of economic failure.

For the world at large, the Soviet experience, an icon no more, is henceforth not to be imitated but avoided. As a result, communism no longer has a practical model for others to emulate.