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This 9 page report discusses the reasons behind the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. For years, economists, politicians, sociologists and other theorists have been explaining the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ranging from hypotheses embracing the triumph of the individual human spirit to the economic mismanagement of the Soviet political structure, a vast array of possibilities has been proffered. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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theorists have been explaining the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ranging from hypotheses embracing the triumph of the individual human spirit to the economic mismanagement of the Soviet political
structure, a vast array of possibilities has been proffered. By the end of the 1980s, the Soviet Union was in the midst of a political, economic, and social crisis. It
was proving out that the Soviet Union could not possibly solve its problems through rigid adherence to an old constitutional and political system that never genuinely reached a level of
political legitimacy. The old system of central controls were not enough to establish a basis of legitimacy for the future; neither was the use of intimidation and force. The Soviet
Union needed to establish new relations between the government and the people if it was to survive. It needed to devise the institutions and degrees of autonomy that appropriately reflected
the consent of the governed. Clearly, those were objectives well beyond the reach of the Soviets. Outsiders, westerners, viewing the process, must be careful not to examine the situation
solely through the lens of the Western understanding of the nation-state. The Soviet Union was a vast "country," therefore the motivations, fears and interests of its diverse people were also
enormously complex. The Kremlin was most certainly not the sole locus of influence, but the political scene had been dominated by the interplay of many forces in Soviet society with
the actions of a particular leader. No single force or occurrence can be identified as the single incident, person, or movement that ultimately led to the dissolution of the
USSR. Instead, the break up of the Soviet Union was more of an event waiting to happen. As the world held its collective breath, the Soviet political, governmental,
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