When was the collapse of the souviet union?

Answer 1

The collapse of the Soviet Union had no central place of occurrence, but was rather a historical change with many different locations. In the USSR itself, the late 1980s saw the major reform movements, known as glasnost and perestroika. These movements signaled increasing individual liberties, especially freedom of the press and of expression, and economic privatisation. These reforms, combined with the Soviet failure in Afghanistan, increasing military expenditures, economic stagnation, and influx of Western information lead to unrest in the Warsaw Pact. The first major changes happened in the Soviet satellite states, primarily East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria. In these states, democratic movements had sprung up and challenged the communist stranglehold on power. As the parties could no longer main control, the USSR refused to use military intervention as they had before (see: the Hungarian Uprising of 1956; the Prague Spring). Subsequently, the regimes rapidly collapsed in these countries from the period of 1989-1991. Later, the collapse began to spread to the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia), Belorussia, Ukraine, Georgia and Russia itself. By 1993, all of these countries had become independent, along with the Central Asian states, where the collapse occurred last.

Answer 2

1991