>>2505483The problem is that the USSR after the great purge was essentially a personalist dictatorship where the rule of the communist party was delegitimized in favor of the general-secretary. So as a result one person could just unilaterally do retarded shit like glasnost. The problem to tackle is basically trying to decentralize power from yourself to the communist party as a political organ, unfortunatley this opens you up to attacks from other people vying for your position. Here is a list of things that need to happen for socialism in Russia and Eastern Europe to succeed.
1. Abolish the position of general-secretary and purge the party of apolitical bureaucrats, instead of general secretary take on the position of president of the RSFSR.
2. Institute a new curriculum of Marxist education and testing for all communist party members.
3. Centralize power around the communist party while also decentralizing power within the party.
4. Build a political consensus within the party to make descisions based on the parties collective self-interest rather than the individual self-interest of different party members.
After this is done you can turn to economics, just do dengism basically because the USSR needs to properly progress through the capitalist mode of production and not that retarded idealist nonsense Stalin tried to do in order to skip capitalism. Afterwards more fundamental issues need to be tackled like for instance:
1. Dissolve the USSR since it became a vehicle for Russian dominance and replace it with a EU styled pan-communist political organism where different communist nations around the world can be represented, with the longer term goal of eventually unifying all communist parties in the world to a single one.
2. Create a Marxist inter governmental task force dedicated to countering color revolutions, essentially their whole purpose is to snuff out and counter western backed color revolutions before they start, or they will to act as first responders to any color revolution that begins.
3. Invest heavily into AI and automation and actually lay out a proper road map to achieving the communist mode of production so people have something to restore their hope in the future.
Other issues like systemic Russian chauvinism will need to be tackled aswell. But this is kind of why the USSR was always doomed after the purges, after all the communists were murdered you pretty much just have a bunch of bureaucrats who are selfishly trying to proctect their own positions rather than conducting a global revolution. The odds of a proper communist getting into power and executing the proper reforms became increasingly slim as the rot in the CPSU became more ossified over time. The real change you need to make is have fanny kaplan shot before she could kill Lenin so he could construct an actual political apparatus and not a slap-dashed one constructed by Stalin after the power vacuum of Lenin's death. You essentially need what China got with Mao living for decades and stabilizing communist party rule. Which Mao being the revolutionary who took power meant he was always more legitimate than Stalin so he didn't need to do any great purge style affairs within the party so level headed people like Deng took power after him instead of wackos or apolitical despots. The same would be true of Lenin's rule, im sure Stalinoids will seethe but this is the truth they don't want to hear.