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The economic model adopted in the former [[Soviet Union]], [[Eastern Bloc]], and other socialist states is often described as a form of state socialism. The ideological basis for this system was the [[Stalinist]] theory of [[socialism in one country]]. The system that emerged in the 1930s in the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production and centralized planning, along with bureaucratic workplace management by state officials that were ultimately subordinate to the all-encompassing [[communist party]]. Rather than the producers controlling and managing production, the party controlled the government machinery, which directed the national economy on behalf of the communist party, and planned the production and distribution of capital goods.
Because of this development, [[Classical Marxism|classical]] and [[orthodox Marxists]] and [[Trotskyist]] groups denounced the communist states as [[Stalinist]] and their economies as [[state capitalist]] or representing [[Deformed workers' state|deformed]] or [[degenerated workers' state]]s, respectively. Within the socialist movement, there is criticism towards the use of the term socialist states in relation to countries such as [[China]] and previously of the Soviet Union and Eastern and Central European states before what some term the "[[Revolutions of 1989|collapse of Stalinism]]" in 1989.<ref>Committee for a Workers' International (June 1992). [http://www.marxist.net/stalinism/ "The Collapse of Stalinism"]. Marxist.net. Retrieved 4 November 2019.</ref><ref>Grant, Ted (1996). [https://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/1996/02/collapse.htm "The Collapse of Stalinism and the Class Nature of the Russian State"]. Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 4 November 2019.</ref><ref>Arnove, Anthony (Winter 2000). [http://www.isreview.org/issues/10/TheFallOfStalinism.shtml "The Fall of Stalinism: Ten Years On"]. ''International Socialist Review''. '''10'''. Retrieved 4 November 2019.</ref><ref>Daum, Walter (Fall 2002). [https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/StalinismPR65.html "Theories of Stalinism's Collapse"]. ''Proletarian Revolution''. '''65'''. Retrieved 4 November 2019.</ref>
Trotskyism argues that the leadership of the communist states was corrupt and that it abandoned Marxism in all but name. In particular, some Trotskyist schools call those countries degenerated workers' states to contrast them with proper socialism (i.e. workers' states), while other Marxists and some Trotskyist schools call them state capitalist to emphasize the lack of
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