Fall of the Soviet Union

How did the economic system of the Soviet Union contribute to its collapse?

• The shortage of raw materials left factories idle.

• The inefficiencies of central planning failed to meet basic needs.

• The privatization of state enterprises resulted in popular dissatisfaction.

• The demand for consumer goods drained needed resources from the military.

legalizing private ownership

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

ability to expose news of government corruption

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

decreased censoring of the media

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

Democratic elections

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

ending the price controls established by the government

• Glasnost

• Perestroika

Perestroika was...

•  Khrushchev's policy of aggression w/ U.S. 
• Gorbachev' policy of reform and restructuring in the USSR
• Russian term for admiration of a comrade 
• Capital of Sudetenland

What was Gorbachev's 1980s policy of glasnost in the USSR?

• Strict laws against speaking
• Encouraged freedom in speech and governnment
• Anarchy and chaos
• American Rule over Russia

Why did Gorbachev wish to reform the Soviet Union?

• He wanted to go down in history
• He knew that Russia's expenditure on arms (weapons) was unsustainable
• He was a capitalist at heart
• He was secretly working for the West

After the fall of the USSR, what did many parts of the former USSR do?

• Attempted to reestablish communism
• Break away from Soviet Union and become independent
• Establish their own communist government
• Change their economic system to the command economy system