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Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

Posted by in History on 23. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR in short, was a commonwealth of 16 independent republics sewn together under the blanket of communism. The Soviet Union was formed in the aftermath of the First World War, when the Old Russian Empire collapsed during the Russian Revolution. Czarist Russia gave way to the communist Soviet Russia, [...]