Soviet Union

Argumentative Essay Collapse of the Soviet Union 2

The collapse of the Soviet Union is one of the most scandalous events of the twenty century.

And the period from 1985 to 1991 became the critical period of the existence of the whole gigantic

Powerful country. What was Soviet Union before 1985? It was a country completely ignoring the

west with its lifestyle, technological development culture and also any of its manifestations at all.

The Soviet Union from 1945 to 1985 was a country surrounded by a wall made of stone that on one

Was able to break. The foundation of this wall set by communism and totalitarian Russian people lived

Under those times.

The reasons of the collapse though Gorbachev made the Soviet Union change the Soviet Union

Forces were withdrawn for Afghanistan the cold war came to its end and other events still something

Went wrong. Soviet people were confused and there was no one general attitude to the new reforms.

Soviet people after all those years of having on contact. With the west striated experiencing its influence

And not all of the people enjoyed it.

People felt as if they had to compete with the western world and were simply confused, as they did

Not know what was better for them at that time. So some of them wanted to come back to Stalin’s

totalitarian because they knew what to expect from it. Because Gorbachev took away the traditional

Power bases in the party. economy and society and did not replace them entirely.

The norms of life lost their values and had no proper substitutions this resulted in clashes, strikes

and growing crime rates. It is common knowledge that each nationality needs to have order and feels

that the development of their state is more or less predictable. During 1985-1991 the Soviet Union

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