U.S./Russian Foreign Policy

The changes that took place in the Soviet lands from 1989 to 1991 stunned the world. The United States and the rest of the Democratic/capitalistic world witnessed an unprecedented transformation of Communist nations into pluralistic democracies with market economies. Actually, this statement is an over-simplification, but it is a true statement of the manner in which the United States wanted to perceive what was going on in the former Soviet Union. A more genuine assessment of the transformation taking place would have to mention the economic problems caused by such a shift in economic systems, not to mention the ethnic tensions unleased when the Communists dissolved their control over separate ethnic regions such as Albania--itself one of the most rigid Communist states.

In fact, it is too early to know whether the former Soviet Union countries will be able to form democratic governments and establish market economies. Throughout the 1990s, as observers continue to note developments in the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe, they will be watching responses to four major challenges:

(1.) How will these countries build multi-party systems and a basis for democracy?; (2.) How will they be affected by

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