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 * 40 A. Identify the causes for the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. A. the weaknesses of the Soviet command economy**:

There was many things wrong with their economy, workers did not care because they got paid the same. etc.

Because of lack of workers enthusiasm (because the government benefited from all of the company's profits) people didnt work as well.Economically, the Soviet system simply did not generate sufficient wealth to sustain its political, social and economic ideals as well as provide the needs of its people. One of the causes is after one country had a workers revolution, all the other workers from other countries saw this and had there own, aka the domino effect. Soviet Russia lacked the military and political power of the former USSR. The Cold War ended as a result. The Soviet Union had a single party political system that dominated by the communist party A factor of the collapse of the soviet union was the lack of honest information, the secrecy of the time caused part of the downfall.The major cause for the collapse of the Soviet Union was the poor economy. This is because they were importing more goods than they could export, causing an imbalance in the system. Workers didn't like that they couldn't make any profit from the work they did. All earnings went to the government.

The soviet union fell due to the lack of money to keep there economy ideal and stable.

Due to this, there wasn't enough wealth to support economic ideals.

The Saudis decided to stop protecting oil prices.

Too much money was spent on the Soviet military.

The immediate cause to the Soviet Union collapsing, was based on economics. The Soviet people turned to imports to get what they wanted. The couldn't buy something nice from the Soviet Union. There weren't even nice things to export to balance out the imports.

Economically, the Soviet system simply did not generate sufficient wealth to sustain its political, social and economic ideals as well as provide the needs of its people.

As these achievements indicate, the Japanese started the war aware of the fact that major offensive action cannot be undertaken without local control of the air. They also appreciated the vulnerability to air attack of surface objectives, both on land and at sea. The Japanese failed, however, to appreciate the full scope and complexity of the requirements for continuing control of the air. The primary causes of the collapse of the Soviet union were political and economic and the result was the culture of war.

The economy was a great factor leading to the fall of the Soviet Union. The steel mills that created out hundreds and thousands of tanks in the 40s, 50s and 60s were breaking and got to the point where they could not be repaired. Oil prices became too low for the government to make a sufficient funds at a time when oil was among the Union's most important resource for making money. The economy could no longer provide for everyone and shortages were common. The standard of living was incredibly low compared to other surrounding countries.

The Soviet Union began to collapse when their government went corrupt.

After years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of the people, economic growth was at a standstill.

Thew Soviet union was in a deadlock. The was doing really bad as far war as economically. They could even afford leather boots. Even when they bought it, it all went to the military.

The Soviet Union collapsed due to an economic and political affect that resulted in a culture war.

The Soviet Union collapsed due to excessive spending in military causes and efforts.

Due to the economic problems the country was facing, the only place to buy anything of any quality at all was from outside the country.

Nicolai Ceausescu was a Romanian politician and he reinforced communism. He was executed on December 25, 1989.

The economy of the Soviet Union was weak because the soviet union did not win the arms race.


 * The Soviet system is not working because the workers are not working.**

Russia didn't make anything that anybody else wanted and it made people unhappy and want to rebel.

A command economy is one where the state controls production by setting quotas and supplying raw materials. It also determines the prices of such goods.

After Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, there was more of a market based economy, leading to the future collapse of the Soviet union.

Within the course of six and a half years, the Soviet Union was first reformed, then transformed, and then disintegrated.

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 dramatic drop of the [|price of oil] in 1985 and 1986, and consequent lack of foreign exchange reserves in following years to purchase grain profoundly influenced actions of the Soviet leadership.[|[][|1][|]]

The election of Mikhail Gorbachev as general secretary of the Soviet Union in 1985 marked the beginning of a second Russian Revolution

Soviets were experiencing harsh economic hardships, a technological standstill, and moral degradation.

After rapid economic growth through the 1950s and 1960s (about 6 percent reported per year, compared to 3 percent in the U.S.), the rate fell to less than 3 percent in the 1970s, and by late 1980s the Soviet GDP was actually declining.

I think the Soviet Union had economic problems because the oil system stopped working in their favor. when Mikhail Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Soviet Union in 1985 it marked the start of a second Russian Revolution.

never recovered from the collectivization of agriculture

A reason for the demise of the Soviet Union was mostly because of the economy and the lack of being able to fund building nuclear war heads. And also that no one could get fired so that is a lot of money being spread thin to a lot of people. And another reason is that factories were not able to make what the want so they are building things that other country's don't want, and that is loosing money for the economy also. those were some of the reasons that I think lead to the Soviet Unions demise.

Dissents and people were unhappy because the command system was doing nothing to improve economy and the freedoms were limited.

The Soviet Command economy made it too hard to obtain things and made costs too expensive.

The main reasons the Soviet Union collapsed are the economic and political causes, which were the result of the culture of the war.

//Yeggor kaidar is director of the Institute for Economies in Transition in Moscow. Between 1991 and 1994, he was acting prime minister of Russia, minister of economy, and first deputy prime minister. Between 1993 and 2003, Gaiter was a founder and a co-chairman of the Russia's Choice and the Union of Rightist Forces Parties, and a deputy of the State Dumas// The Soviet system had inherent political and economic flaws that made it unsustainable.

The command economy in the soviet union helped the collapse, due to the fact that because of the command economy people were unhappy with the living conditions and were starting to rebel. Also because the USSR did not make good products which reduced the amount selling in the soviet union.A reason would be because as one country of the USSR protest and gain freedom other countries start to also want change and it created a chain of events that soon brought the soviets down.This command economy was ineffective because there was no incentives for working hard and they didn't meet the needs of individuals wants. The command economy eventually collapsed because incentives were not provided. People had no reason to bother doing their work well or to do their work at all, so they slacked off. They also didn't even need to show up to work because you could not be fired. And this led to lower quality goods. The soviet union collapsed because of its bad economy.

The soviet union could not keep up with the increasing GNP around the world and the first product to fall behind was electronics and specialty chemicals.

In December 1991 the world watched as the soviet union disintegrated into 15 separate countries.

The command economy was ultimately the down fall for the Soviet Union because the people were not happy with it and revolted so it is thought that they then had enemies inside the borders of the Soviet Union and outside the borders so with no economic support and few allies the Soviet Union collapsed.

In a command economy the economic decisions are made by some authority rather than individuals

The command economy was not good for the U.S.S.R. because it made life harder on the people, and in turn made them take jobs they didn't want, and didn't get good money out of.

Why with all those assets was the Soviet Union economy so weak? There are a range of reasons. Of course having a closed system, Soviet officials could keep details about the economic failures of the system from the population. The basic theoretical excuse for successful Western economies was that the West was exploiting Third World countries. Of course unmentioned was the degree to which the Soviets were economically exploiting their Eastern European Empire.

The Soviet Union finally collapsed when Boris Yeltsin seized power.

The USSR colapsed by the economy hurling down into nothing and the people werent pleased with any of the laws and unfair circumstances.

The speed with which the Soviet system was transformed and the Soviet state disintegrated took almost everyone by surprise. The system appeared impervious to fundamental change during the years Leonid Brezhnev headed the Politburo (1964-82). And even the most disaffected nationalities in the Soviet Union - a description that fitted the Baltic peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - did not in their wildest dreams believe, when Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, that within less than seven years they would be living in independent states

The Soviet Union was in a period of economic stagnation at least since the 1970s.

The USSR collapsed because of influences of other countries who were gaining freedom and independence from the soviets, the people saw what they are capable of doing and they overwhelmed the government and the economy collapsed and before anyone knows it the berlin wall is torn down.

The Soviet Union began to collapse when their government went corrupt.