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Editors: Luke and Cassie

Failing economy and military burdens had other countries wasnt to become sovereing and not a part of the soviet union.
 * 40 D. Identify the causes for the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes of Eastern Europe** **D. the resistance to communism in the Soviet Union and**

Eastern Europe: The loss of elitist party confidence destroyed communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

The Cold War began as the Second World War ended and left post-war Europe divided between Western democracies and Soviet Army-occupied nations of Eastern Europe. Eastern Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine were apart of the Soviet Union. Some of the resistant generated by workers was due to the fact that some people work a lot harder then others for equal pay. When Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as general secretary in 1985, it marked the start of the second Russian Revolution. He freed public access to information, and eventually helped to end the cold war. Originally his plans to change the Soviet Union to make it better created its demise. When Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) he made many changes to Soviet foreign policy and the economy of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Mikhail Gorbachev resigned in December 25, 1991 and that was the start of the end of the Soviet Union.

No one payed much attention, they thought if they just removed some prohibitions. They went under that illusion for almost 2 years before we came up with the resistance of the military-industrial system. They realized that when they began to understand that if they wanted radical reform they would inevitably come up against the resistance of the system.

The Cold War began as the Second World War ended and left post-war Europe divided between Western democracies and Soviet Army-occupied nations of Eastern Europe. In the middle lay Germany, divided and occupied by the four post-war Allied powers, the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. When the soviet union tried to gain control of outher parts of Europe, they met much resistance.

The countries that mainly supported the Soviet Union gave up on it which drained power in both war and economy.

The Soviet Union therefore didn't have as much support as it had before, and instead some of these countries got rid of communism and don't support it any longer.

All other parties were banned with the exception of parties that shared communist ideas.

Eastern European countries started to brake off from the Soviet union when the Cold war began.

Nicolai Ceausecu was executed for illegal wealth gain and a general disregard for the welfare of his country. His wife was killed too.

They were outnumbered and the resigning of Mikhail Gorbachev.

He freed public access to information, and eventually helped to end the cold war.

The Russian government was focusing only on the arms race, and there by neglecting their economy.

many people in the soviet union did not like there communist government. the fat that they were in a country that had a government that they did not like made them unhappy so the weak people made the country weaker.

As the soviet union began to fall apart many of the countries of the Eastern bloc dis-aligned themselves with the USSR without much protest from the Soviet Government

When the Eastern European countries of the Soviet Union started to notice that the U.S.S.R. was starting to weaken, they abandoned it.

When the Soviet Union started to collapse and began to neglect their economy, supporting countries saw this and discontinued their support for it.

Once Gorbachev allowed public action to the citizens of the Soviet Union there became less support for communism, weakening the Soviet Union.

Many ex-communists have turned into anti-communists. Mikhail Gorbachev turned from a communist into a social democrat. Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish communist who became a famous anti-communist.

Because they saw the errors in communism

On 29 July 1938, the Japanese invaded the USSR and were checked at the battle of lake khasan. The battle was a Soviet victory.

The major uprising against communism not only took place in Eastern Europe, but also in the Soviet Union, but the mojority of the uprising was from Eastern Europe because people in the Soviet Union were afraid to stand up because of the conciquences.

In one opinion, the economic system was the main sorce of greive that the Soviet Union had to face as they eventually ran innto debt Communism is an international political movement and a political and economic system.

The Soviets found that communisim was unfair.

Anti-communist resistance came in many forms. Such as liberal democrats to socialist anarchists to Jew-hating nationalists.

Greater political and social freedoms, instituted by the last Soviet leader, [|Mikhail Gorbachev], created a bad atmosphere of open criticism of the [|Moscow] regime

The Soviet Union was focused on the arms race more than the economy. And anti-communism forms came from many areas.

The resistance started in Poland after Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul 2 - he was the focus of the resistance. some people like the dictatorship so when the Berlin wall came down there was more of a push to choose communiisum. The people of the Soviet Union found the command economy to be unfair and did not give them what they needed when they wanted to shop. A lot of the people who lived in the soviet union were against communism which helped take it down. Many people in the soviet union were against communism so it was hard for it to continue.

With a combination of the command economy and the military that citizens in this society that made rebels start riots and people to stop complaining

People of the USSR and Eastern Europe started going against communism and having riots, wanting their freedom. They wanted to go to the opposite side of the Berlin Wall from where they were.

Many new revolutions turned down communism because it had failed during the soviet union.

In the early years of the 20th Century, the Soviet Union rose from a backwards nation on the fringes of European civilization, and became the largest empire in history within half a century. Established to protect a global communist crusade, both its mission and its rapid growth were unprecedented in world history. Competing against the courage and vision of those who dared to seek greater freedom and security, this empire would last less than a century before being erased from the world stage in an unusual chain of events.

The Soviet Union didn't have as much support as before, so some countries decided to get rid of Communism.

Once Gorbachev allowed public action to the citizens of the Soviet Union there became less support for communism, weakening the Soviet Union.