They were much less efficient at producing goods than western free market economies
Answer this question… They failed to produce enough consumer goods, including food, for their citizens.
Countries with command economies failed to produce enough consumer goods, including food, for their citizens.
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.
The Soviet Union was never Communist, it was an example of state capitalism. Communism is a classless stateless society based on production for use.
The Soviet Union was state capitalist, not Communist. Communism means a classless stateless society based on production for use.
Soviet Union collapsed because communistic leaders next generation love Beatles and James Bond - not Lenin and Communism :). When this generation came to power they destroy Communism. :)
Answer this question… They struggled with ethnic conflicts and political instability brought about by the collapse of communism.
No, the collapse of the USSR does not actually prove that communism doesn't work, any more than the failure of Joe's Fish and Chips proves that restaurants don't work. The failure of the Soviet Union and its satellite states is just one example in which a paranoid version of communism didn't work. It may well be that it is possible to do it better. Although I offer no guarantees.
introducing the policies of perestroika and glasnost
Collectives disbanded, foreign investors, industries closed, nations joined the EU, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War contributed the most to increasing international trade for eastern and Western Europe in the 1990's.
soviet economic collapse
Reagan placed a great deal of political pressure on the Soviet Union to make drastic changes.
Very likely one of the major factors that played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union was discontent. People in the Soviet Union saw that communism was not working and the entire system was unfair to the rank and file worker.