How did the communist collapsed in Russia?

Question

How did the communist collapsed in Russia? Can the scenario be repeated in other parts of the world?

Answer 1

can and has..... like 20 Vampires and only one victim....bled dry. A failed ideology that only the American Lefties believe can work.


Black Dowg is funny! China has been running to capitalism like a starving mutt and stripping its communism like a girls gone wild video! Cuba will not be communist 15 minutes after that old shiit castro croaks, Vena zuela is like a bunch of kids in the candy store they are stealing 50 years worth of work and will soon shoot Chavez for talking them into it.

Answer 2

The Soviet Union was founded in the days when modern communications were in their infancy and it was much easier for the ruling Bolsheviks, later Communist Party to control the media.

This control was gradually broken down as people in the USSR were able to get more information about the rest of the world and demands for democracy, more openness and freedom of speech etc. reached the stage where the system had to change. Added to this were the movements for independence in countries like the Baltic Republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and pressure to break away from Communist rule from Eastern Europe.

Add a younger, more realistic leader like Gorbachev who in any case had more progressive ideas and accepted that change was inevitable and you have a large part of the answer.

Those who attribute the end of Communism in Russia & Eastern Europe (I prefer to think it didn't actually collapse but re-evolved into something else) to Thatcher and Reagan and their arms spending forget that this may have been followed by the end of the Cold War and the negotiations to end the arms race, but did not contribute to the end of Communism. That came from inside the Soviet Union.

A couple more points about the arms race: 1) the war in Afghanistan weakened the Soviet Union just as much if not more than the nuclear weapons programme; 2) if Britain and the US had proceeded much further with their arms programmes they would have been in serious economic trouble themselves. There were already severe public spending cuts on both sides of the Atlantic.

The British government is now proposing spending £76bn on a replacement for the Trident system which has already cost the taxpayer £40bn and anyone who believes this is not going to have a knock-on effect on the economy is living in cloud-cuckoo land.

As to happening in other parts of the world, yes: if enough people in a country or countries are willing to act for change, that change is bound to happen. Dictatorships can be overthrown and dramatic changes to the political landscape can take place.

Answer 3

A big part of the collapse was the drop of the price of oil, hence the revenue it provided to sustain the old USSR. Indeed if we can possibly bring the price of oil down by emphasizing alternative energy sources, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuella etc would become marginal players and would not be able to fund terrorism.
But since the Big Oil is the government, I see no hope in collapsing any of those regimes soon.

Answer 4

Ronald Reagan with assistance from Maggie Thatcher defeated the evil empire by driving their economy into the ground. The Soviet Union was trying to out spend the US in weapon systems but their economy could not support this vast expenditure on their part. In the end citizens of the Soviet Block nations quest to be free coupled with Reagan standing firm (also against unilateral disarmament nitwit liberals in this country) against this evil empire defeated them and the Berlin Wall eventually came down and millions of people were free.

PS: To Blackdog... Not many communist nations for you to immigrate to these days you can count them on one hand. Try moving to Cuba before Fidel bites the dust.

Answer 5

Do you really think Communism collapsed?. It is weakened, not collapsed. Communism is even stronger than it was in places like China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc and unifying to defy Capitalism.

Answer 6

they went broke more or less. decentralisation of the government and open criticism of the governement being allowed was the main causes. Glasnost and peristroika they are called. Gorbachev was the man who allowed these concepts to come into play. any government can collapse at any time.

Answer 7

Ronald Reagen stared Gorbachev down and won.

Answer 8

The very concept on which communism is based is flawed......The concept was good (too good) only in theory.....practically we are all animals and cannot bear to be clubbed as same.....some have to show they are more powerful and hence have more rights than others.........

Answer 9

Communisuim is to much strain on a goverment. People want freedom,they want to choose who thier leaders are they don't want to have leaders forced on them.