Question
Explain any three reasons for the disintegration of the USSR.
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Answer
- These developments were accompanied by a rapidly escalating crisis within the USSR that hastened its distingration.
- Grobachev initiated the polices of economic and political reform and democratization within the country. Leaders within the communist party opposed the reforms.
- A coup (Remove Gorbachev. Capture power without people consent) took place in 1991 that was encouraged by Communist Party hard-liners.
- The people had tasted freedom by then and did not want the old-style rule of the Communist Party.
- Power began to shift from the Soviet centre to the republics, especially in the more Europeanized part of the Soviet Union, which saw them as Sovereign states.
- The Leadership of Yeltisn, Rusiia, Ukraine and Belarus, three major republish of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union was disbaned.
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