How and why did the Soviet Union collapse? In this video we discuss the causes and effects of the dissolution of the USSR, starting well before Gorbachev's Perestroika. We will look at the problems within the Union, the historical problems of its foundation and the economic challenges that the Soviets tried to solve during Andropov's time and afterwards.
Sources:
Keeran, Socialism Betrayed
Zubok, The Fall of the Soviet Union
Zaslavsky, History of the Soviet System
articles and sitography:
Round, The construction of 'poverty' in post-Soviet Russia
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