USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbachev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union. Planned by hard-line Communists, the coup diminished Gorbachev’s power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics.

Detailed explanation-2: -The following day, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR’s upper chamber, the Soviet of the Republics formally dissolved the Union. The events of the dissolution also marked the major conclusion of the Revolutions of 1989 and the end of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Russia is the primary de facto internationally recognized successor state to the Soviet Union after the Cold War; while Ukraine has, by law, proclaimed that it is a state-successor of both the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union which remained under dispute over formerly Soviet-owned properties.

Detailed explanation-4: -By October 1990, Germany was reunified, triggering the swift collapse of the other East European regimes. People celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirteen months later, on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved.