Post Communistic Countries
During the last months of 1991 the Soviet empire simply disintegrated into its constituent republics and was finally given a decent burial on December 25. The economic situation in the former union grew more and more catastrophic, and ethnic tensions worsened. President Yeltsin of Russia stood forth as the most decisive leader of an extremely difficult transition era. This sudden collapse of a vast multinational empire and superpower was virtually unprecedented in world history. These cataclysmic events proved profoundly traumatic for the peoples of the former Soviet Union and for an anxious world.By 1990 the Soviet Union - politically, economically and in national terms - was an empire in crisis and turmoil. Gorbachev had sought unsuccessfully to lead a perilous transition from Brezhnev`s authoritarian, centralized system toward pluralism and market socialism. He had moved far beyond Khrushcev in encouraging a pitiless examination of previous Soviet policies and history, inducing many to question sharply the legitimacy of the Soviet regime. In the spring and summer of 1990, amid unredeemed promises of drastic economic change, political reform and national disintegration accelera
The chief architect of the Soviet collapse was Mikhail Gorbachev himself. During August 1991 coup, as a prisoner of the junta Crimena villa, he was the object of a struggle between the partisans of the old order and the champions of liberal values. John P. Maynard: Soviet Communism Collapsed on Its Own Glasnost and democratization were for Gorbachov, means to an end. That end was the improvement of Soviet economic performance. Economic reform was the central feature of his program to lift the country out of the economic stagnation into which it had lapsed at the end of the Brezhnev era. The center's obligations expanded as it poured more and more money into investment and tried to buy public support with generous wage increases. At the same time its income plummeted, as republican governments and enterprises refused to send revenues to Moscow. ted. With the Supreme Soviet Boris Yeltsin, favoring radical reform, helped organize a left-wing opposition to Gorbachev, supported on most issues by Andrei Sakharov. 3. Contribution to the fall of the Soviet system has been a deliberate policy of identification with the nations under Communist tutelage. 2. The mere existence of relatively rich and relatively free capitalist countries, sid
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