The economy was starting to get worse, drugs and stds were becoming common, gorbachevs reforms really were the biggest factor.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USSR or Soviet.
Soviet union or USSR
It can be traced after they left Afghanistan after 9 years of a costly war. From that point on the Soviet Union was on a steady decline and never recovered.
now known as Russia! USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...also known as the soviet union.
The USSR is an abbreviation of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
USSR stands for : Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and the Soviet Union are different names for the same thing. It's like how another name for the United States of America is USA.
The Soviet Union (USSR, or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
The Soviet Union / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / USSR
The Soviet Union, or USSR.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the second leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union and sometimes referred to, somewhat inaccurately, as "Russia". The USSR no longer exists as of 1991. Russia, the largest part of the former Soviet Union, is now a country.