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PART I. Gorbachev's reforms are ultimately responsible for the Soviet collapse, which saw the end of Soviet superpower status, a massive reduction in the Soviet military's size and strength, the unilateral evacuation of all territories in Central and Eastern Europe occupied at great human cost in the Second World War, and a rapidly declining ...
It didn't really "collapse" overnight or just dissolve, there were economic issues brewing inside the country for a decade+ at that point, massive spending when they were invading Afghanistan, needing to keep up with the arms race against the USA, etc and Gorbachev's reforms towards a more "free" society all sorta came together to put the USSR to rest.
A repost of this answer I wrote: . PART I. Gorbachev's reforms are ultimately responsible for the Soviet collapse, which saw the end of Soviet superpower status, a massive reduction in the Soviet military's size and strength, the unilateral evacuation of all territories in Central and Eastern Europe occupied at great human cost in the Second World War, and a rapidly declining economy ...
Regulai. •. Russia was one of the main states aiming to break up the union. The real reason the union fell was that as part of the liberalizing reforms of the late 80's, significant power was devolved to the individual State governments, many of which had limited often only theoretical powers before.
The same goes for the Soviet Union. The sun was already setting on their empire and ideology, but the timing of the collapse is explained by cheap oil much more than ideological historians, pundits who like the Pope or Reagan want to admit link1 , link2 In fact, Putin may have been another mediocrity were it not for his rise to power coinciding ...
The Soviet union failed because Socialism does not work. At the time of the collapse Russia had about 22% of the per capita GDP of the United States. If Russia had not stolen all of our inventions their per capita income would've been about 10% of ours. Communism failed relative to the success of US capitalism.
However, one question that has always stuck in my mind is “Why did the Soviet Union collapse?”. In modern times you hear theories from the left and the right. With the left saying that the reason that the USSR collapsed was due to sabotage by the West and through reactionary traitors. While the right says that Socialism is a bad economic ...
twotime. • 6 yr. ago • Edited 5 yr. ago. As to factors which contributed to the collapse, here are some: the policy of openness resulted in a FLOOD of publications about Stalin times: famines, purges, mass deportations, massive mismanagement of prewar years, etc. And then there was another flood:a flood of information about the life on the ...
First of all: The main reason the Soviet Union collapsed is obviously the fact that they were attacked by fascist aggressors and had millions of their most fit young men and countless of their civilians killed in wars, especially WWII. Secondly: The next main reason is obviously anti-communist aggression by capitalist states.
Economic measures taken by the Reagan administration against the Soviet Union were perhaps more effective. Undermining the USSR economically could potentially bring about a Soviet collapse or retreat in three key ways. Firstly it could threaten the Soviet ‘ability to match the west militarily’. Secondly it could reduce the confidence of ...