Control in Command Economies

The 20th century saw revolutions and wars scar the world with dictators on both of the extreme left and right fighting to control the people of their own countries, and others with millions of innocent people dying at the hands of tyrants. This article seeks to explore how those living under command economies were controlled by the state using the USSR as a case study, and how ultimately they failed. It will end by exploring the question of whether a command economy is possible without the use of rigid social and economic controls which deny human rights and individual freedoms.