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This research paper discusses various aspects of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, including the reasons why the communist system and ideology in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) failed, the legacy bequeathed by communism to the successor states which emerged, the political, economic and social challenges that arose in those states and how those states responded to those challenges.

A number of inter-related factors led to the disintegration of the Soviet system and empire, including the woeful inadequacy of the totalitarian police state, dogmatic communist ideology and centralized planned economy which evolved after the Russian Revolution of 1917 in preparing the Soviet Union to meet the requirements of the late 20th century, international developments which involved a mismatch between Soviet imperial ambitions and the capacity of the Soviet system to keep up technologically and to compete with the United States and the rest of the industrialized world economically, and the failure of the attempt by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his associates to reform the Soviet system after Gorbachev became Party Secretary in March 1985, a well nigh impossible task compounded by errors of judgment.

Although the successor states benefitted from the material gains which had been achieved under Soviet communism, the breakup of the Soviet Union had a devastatingly destabilizing and damaging effect on them, on their political unity, which was aggravated by their ill-preparedness for self-government, and on their economies which had been previously integrated and centrally administered, and by unleashing nationalist and ethnic tensions and conflicts. Those effects varied greatly from one region to another. The former Baltic republics recovered fastest. Russia itself became an economic basket case as it struggled to replace autocratic rule with an embryonic form of representative government and to move away from a cen...

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