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This 10 page paper argues that among the reasons for the collapse of the USSR we must consider the impact of Polish movement Solidarity; the Polish free elections; and the ill-will that existed between Poland and Russia going back to WWII. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Union in 1991 was both unbelievable and a miracle. How could a nation strong enough to threaten the United States for over 40 years suddenly implode? This paper argues that
among the reasons for the collapse we must consider the impact of Polish movement Solidarity; the Polish free elections; and the ill-will that existed between Poland and Russia going back
to WWII. A Note about the Research As always, when researching a paper like this it would be wonderful to find a series of articles with titles like "The Polish
Free Elections as a Cause of the Breakup of the Soviet Union," but such things almost never happen. What we will do is look at the information from various sources
and see if we can put it together in a way that indicates whether or not the events in Poland (the Gdansk Shipyard strike that led to the formation of
Solidarity; the free elections; the coalition government) encouraged other Soviet satellite nations to rebel against Soviet authority. Discussion The first thing we note is that after its first election, Poland
was faced with a government with "dual power": Tadeusz Mazowiecki was the first freely elected prime minister in Eastern Europe, but the Communist General Wojciech Jaruzelski remained as president with
control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our question about the Soviet Union because for the first
time, the Communist Party found itself lacking "the power of patronage in the economy through the nomenklatura, and probably stripped of its control over the media."2 The Party thus has
to transform itself from a "machine for carrying orders from above" and discover a new function for itself, along with a "new legitimacy."3 We might reasonably conclude that the weakness
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