INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Stalin died and the people did not know what to do
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Gorbachev gave them more personal freedom and economic freedom that lead to the economy struggling
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America invaded the Soviet Union
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The Berlin Wall fell down and crushed all the people
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Countries under communist rule started to demand economic freedom
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Detailed explanation-1: -The decline of the Soviet economy is sometimes explained by exoge-nous shocks, like the troubles in the oil industry, the coal strike in the first quarter of 1990, the collapse of trade with Eastern Europe following its liberation, the plant shutdowns for environmental reasons, and the regional frictions in the USSR.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gorbachev’s decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which is one factor that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet command economy in the late twentieth century? Exporting natural resources led to food shortages. Widespread inflation led to high prices and scarcity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Many historians believe that the two policies he put in place to address the nation’s challenges, glasnost (“openness”) and perestroika (“restructuring”), hastened the dissolution of the Soviet system, which was already in decline.