INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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There were food shortages, clothing shortages and basic needs were not being met.
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Communism met their needs.
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They wanted the government to have more control.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -By the summer of 1990, all of the former communist regimes of Eastern Europe were replaced by democratically elected governments. In Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, newly formed center-right parties took power for the first time since the end of World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -Communist party rule has been criticized as authoritarian or totalitarian for suppressing and killing political dissidents and social classes (so-called “enemies of the people"), religious persecution, ethnic cleansing, forced collectivization, and use of forced labor in concentration camps.
Detailed explanation-3: -Communism’s failure in Eastern Europe and revolution Gorbachev’s abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine (which called on the Soviet Union to intervene in countries where socialist rule was under threat) meant unlike previous occasions, the USSR no longer had the means or will to impose military control.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the Russian Revolution, the empire became embroiled in a civil war. This, coupled with the lasting effects of World War One and the political transition causing food supply issues, led to a major famine between 1918-1921. The seizing of grain during the conflict exacerbated the famine.