What were reasons why the Soviet Union was in such dire economic conditions during the latter half of the 1980s?

Answer 1

The Soviet economy had started to fail before the 1980s as a result of the planned economy structure the government had instituted. However, things came to ahead as fixing numbers in data to meet targets and quotas in the 1980s combined with the fact that the goods being produced were not meeting the needs of their consumers. By this time, neither Andropov or Gorbachevâ??s attempts to fix the economic crisis could do much good.

Answer 2

i believe it was because of the Russian war with Afghanistan which eventually reguired allot of money for the war effort. and Russias maintenance and aquisition with other countries which involves the influence or expansion of comminisum. countries like china, North Korea, north vietnam, mongolia and so on. now these countries were all in the favor of the Soviet Union or soviet russia and the reason why these countries wanted to become communists is because of military and medical aid of the soviet union. which exasted Russias economy later on, while the cold war progresses. since both the korean and vietnam wars eropted, plus the cuban missile crisis, all of which Russia had given in to. russias economy went dier. and was forced to put an end to its communist Government which ended the cold war by the fall of the soviet union in 1991.

Answer 3

I believe its because of the Russian war with Afghanistan which eventually reguired a lot of money for the war effort. and because of Russias maintenance and aquisition with other countries. like china, north korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and so on. were all in the favor of the soviet union or soviet Russia, and the reason for this, was because of Military and Medical Aid from the soviet union, and in return, it involves the influence or expansion of communism into those countries and others that would care to join it. and through out the years, while the cold war was still progressing in the 1980s it seemed that Russia had been exasted after everything its been giving to other countries in the early years of the cold war simply to spread the influence of communism to other countries there for making new alliences or allies with other countries aswell. and at that point in the 1980s Russias effort in the cold war became dier and Russia did not have enough goods and survices to provide for its own country and all of its people since Russia was giving everything it had to other countries and helping other countries economys and not concentrating on its own country and economy.