Question

In contrast to America, which of the following were characteristics of the Soviet Union? one-party system Judeo-Christian Communist republic multi-party system atheist

Answer 1

The main thing that contrasted the United States of America and the Soviet Union was that the latter was a one-party system country coupled with their communist republic characteristics. Both of these things strongly characterized the difference between the American and the Soviet Union countries.

Answer 2

The Soviet Union has a one party system, historically resulting from the  working class, much like today China. The Soviets believed multiple parties represented the class struggle, they wanted to see absent in Soviet society,  the official name was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

There was no official religion, so it was considered an atheist state, secular state. In many of its history it came to prosecute religious practices, in some cases having strong consequences for the Russian Orthodox Church.

The system was designed as communist from Marxist Leninist theories on economy, politics and society. The consecuences of this result in political economy and the way the means of production are held by state intervention.