Post communism
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
Krancberg argues that the "grand failure" of the Soviet system was rooted in the failure of Marxist-Leninist ideology to provide a viable basis for the Soviet regime and its actions. Information, as a concept, comes into the world trailing clouds of glory. It is nothing less, its most eminent popularizer Norbert Wiener has aid, than the main part of life's counter-offensive against the entropic impulse that will eventually cause the universe to run down.
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Approximate Word count = 1670
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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