As you can imagine, there are always mixed reactions to major changes in society, we are all afraid of change. But I would think that the working class people who actually knew the objective of communism were thrilled, and yet hoping that the dictator would be responsible enough as to not convert it to a fascist Dictatorship.
Chat with our AI personalities
Soviet Russia
Russia became first a communist state and later the largest Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union.
China was ruled by the so-called Communist Party after 1949, but it was not a Communist country. Communism means the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society. China became state capitalist after 1949.
The southeast Asian nation of Laos became the Lao People's Democratic Republic in 1975. The government was overthrown in a communist revolution that was aided by the Russians and the Chinese.
When Russia went communist following the Bolshevik Revolution, it became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or Soviet Union). Russia is now an Illiberal Democracy as opposed to a Communist Dictatorship. Most former Soviet States sit on the continuum from Illiberal Democracy and Dictatorship, but none are Communist anymore.