my world history teacher nver got around to teaching us b.c hes been absent but told the substitute to give us this essay due tomorrow!
2007-05-10 09:34:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
President Regan out spent the SU on military power, and in their attempt to keep up they simply went broke, and were unable to maintain political control over many of the countries that were in their union. That is why they are known as Russia today, as the other countries have pulled away and become new states or countries with their own government.
2007-05-14 08:26:00 · answer #1 · answered by H. A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one event caused the collapse -- it was a mix of factors: increasing strength of Western democratic institutions, ineptitude in and inefficiency of the Soviet economy; the leadership of a man who instituted polices that would NEVER have been tolerated, much less endorsed by his predecessors (perestroika, glasnost). The combination of all these events led to the gradual crumbling of the Soviet will to support itself. The Berlin Wall fell and things would never be the same. The Soviet Army did not assert itself, and that would be it. If I had to put it in one phrase, I'd say the Soviet Union got tired of being the Soviet Union.
2007-05-10 09:43:35 · answer #2 · answered by greg.renson 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was a mix of things but I think primarily their economic system and communism. Even in the early 80's they were on their way to falling apart. They were spending much more of their GDP on military than we were. Their economic system couldn't support it either given their controls and silly way of doing things. In fact, if you remember, we had to sell them grain alot of times because they couldn't even feed themselves.
Now, throw the increaesd military Ante that Reagan through on them, along with new policies from Gorby and the end was pretty much written.
2007-05-10 09:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by dapixelator 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Communism failed because people did not have any incentive to produce. They owned nothing and got very little pay from the government.
2007-05-10 09:56:37 · answer #4 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is all economics the system had become bureacratic and it just did not work anymore - communism is beautiful on paper in practice it stinks just look at cuba
2007-05-10 09:43:35 · answer #5 · answered by worldstiti 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because Socialism is a failure, a hard lesson libs are incapable of learning.
2007-05-10 09:42:06 · answer #6 · answered by Lavrenti Beria 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think it was all a conspiracy. It was all a setup to divide that country and conquer it!
I hope you got my point here!
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2007-05-10 10:15:15 · answer #7 · answered by atyourService 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was top heavy.
2007-05-10 12:12:02 · answer #8 · answered by thevillageidiotxxxxx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋