During The Gorbachev Reforms Of The Soviet Loss Of The Right Of Speech

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPS) was the first proletarian ruling party in the world. The CPS alleged Marxism as its guiding ideology and aimed at building socialism and communism. In its long-term governance, as the sole ruling party in the Soviet Union, the Communist Party's ideology had become the Soviet Union's state ideology. AS a result, in the country's political and social life, the communist party's ideology had got the dominant position and the CPS had got its right to speak preponderant. However, it is unexpected that during the period of Gorbachev reform, the grand reform that should have been to target improving socialism had evolved into a process in which CPS gradually lost its ruling status. Of course, there are many aspects to explain this failure, among which it is important that CPS lose its used ideology dominance and preponderant right to speak step by step. In the period of Gorbachev reform, encouraged by the slogan of publicity, diversification and democratization and combined with many other historic reasons and real factors, CPS failed in keeping the party's right to speak preponderant. Instead, the dominance of the party's right to speak which CPS should have been kept was replaced by Boris Yeltsin's radical democracy camp.On the standing of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, this paper adopts the methods of comparative study and historical empirical analysis, trying to explore and discuss the process of CPS losing its right to speak during the period of Gorbachev reform in detail. And this paper consists of four parts:First of all, the paper explains the theory on the party's right to speak in general. This part not only defines the concept of discourse and the right to speak clearly, but also advances the connotation of political parties'discourse and the party's right to speak. Then, it details the features of the party's right to speak and the main factors that determine this right, laying the foundation and framework for further dissertation.Secondly, this paper looks back the characters and problems of the right to speak CPS used to have before Gorbachev's reform. The part analyses the characters and potential problems of the party's right to speak when this right is preponderant in Soviet society before Gorbachev's reform, and explains deeply the reasons of these characters and potential problems.Thirdly, this paper describes the process of CPS losing its right to speak during Gorbachev's period and explores the causes. On the basis of analyzing the theory source and the essential of Gorbachev's reform, this part describes the four stages of the Gorbachev's reform process ( preparation, starting, transition and interregnum) in details, and with the elaborate examples explores the causes that resulted in CPS losing its right to speak deeply.Finally, this paper gets some inspiration from the process of CPS losing its dominant right to speak. According to what has mentioned earlier and taking CPS for example, this part reveals how a ruling party maintains its right to speak dominant in a society and keeps its ruling power for ever from three aspects -- the ideology building, reasonable assessment of its history and its leaders, and strengthening its close contact with people.