What is this? Fill in the blanks? Jeopardy? Oh, well, I'll give it a shot anyway.
The great Soviet Union was weakened by it's long war with Afghanistan, in addition to having spent itself into a corner with runaway military spending. Of course, as usual, there were probably a couple of hundred other things that contributed to the collapse.
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe rapidly followed the fall of the great giant, the Soviet Union. With their giant benefactor no longer able to offer them financial and other support, the satellite communist bloc nations were left to fend for themselves. Most seem to have done alright for themselves, adapting to free democracy, while a few like Yugoslavia erupted into a boiling cauldron of ethnic hatred and internal fighting and bitter warfare that lasted the better part of the next decade.
1990
Eastern Europe
Glasnot was a signal to other countries that they could get rid of communism.
Glasnot was a signal to other countries that they could get rid of communism.
The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was a series of events that led to the dissolution of communist regimes in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This collapse was spurred by a combination of factors, including economic stagnation, political repression, and popular discontent. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolized the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe, while the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the final collapse of communism in the region.
Communism (classless stateless society based on production for use and democratic control) never existed in Eastern Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the end of state capitalism.
It didn't. The catalyst for the collapse of communism was Hungary's decision to open their border. So many professionals, like doctors and engineers, escaped to the West after they did this that the Warsaw Pact nations liberalized their political systems to keep any more of them from leaving.
The DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) or in English GDR (German Democratic Republic).
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1. What form of government should be formed in the different nations. 2. How to convert a communist economy into a free market economy.
The CPM party, in Eastern India, uses communism.
Too much spending on the military