The Fall Of The Soviet Union

My cherished friend, I regret to inform you that our beloved Soviet society has ceased to exist. Our solid red flag with its magnificent gold emblem of the hammer and sickle flew above the Kremlin for the very last time on Christmas day, 1991. Prior to this gloomy day, eleven of the fifteenth Soviet republics that once made up the strong and prosperous Soviet Union, met in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, to announce that they would no longer partake in the Soviet Union, and had created a Commonwealth of independent states. Our Baltic brothers: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were the first to break apart, while Georgia remained as the last republic in the Soviet Union. I have served the Soviet Union as Minister of Foreign Affairs

In 1989, the world saw the fall of the United Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.), which was also known as the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a block of 15 Communist Eastern European states that was ruled by one government with various puppet governments located throughout the states. Its collapse brought about new issues that the world had never had to deal with before. The fall of such a large block of Soviet states created many problems and some of the solutions that were used to solve these problems, as well as many of the tensions that were created during this time, still affect the world today. Some of the ramifications resulting from the Soviet Union’s collapse are still being felt; however, many problems have been solved

During the era of the Cold War, starting in 1947 and definitively ending in 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union faced off in conflicts with each other through smaller states.

The main causes of the fall of the Soviet Union was because the Soviet Union couldn’t afford to keep up with the arms race during the cold war, the government couldn’t manage to keep the people content with things such as housing and food and communism government system completely failed in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was built on about the same territory as the Russian Empire which it succeeded. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Socialism was a newly formed government that was developed by a philosophy. Socialism government is when property is held in common and not individually and relationship are governed. Socialism gradual transition to Communism. Communism is a political theory that Karl Marx came up with. Communism is when the society in which property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. The state of Bolsheviks indentation was to overcome national differences and rather to create one monolithic state based on a centralized economical and political system. This state was built on a Communist ideas, was eventually transformed into a totalitarian state when the Communist leadership had complete control over the country.

America’s foundation was constructed on the ideal of freedom, whether that be religious, political, or individual freedom. U.S. citizens have very strong feelings about their independence and will do almost anything to protect their rights from being taken away. During the 1950s Americans were afraid that their freedom was going to be threatened and taken away by the communist style of government. The Soviet Union and America were both trying to win control on a global scale, but with the USSR being communist the paranoia of a socialism takeover was heightened. Americans were so fearful of communism that it became known as the Red Scare. All over the country people were being accused of being communist spies and federal employees were being interrogated, the U.S. was in full panic mode. The United States was so fearful of the USSR being able to gather more communist allies and take over that the U.S. stepped in militarily to protect South Korea from North Korea’s communist invasion. This battle for dominance between the nations was named the Cold War. I believe that this war was justified because there were clear threats towards the United States and their capitalist ideals. In the very beginning of the Cold War the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb. This seemed like a clear indication that the USSR had plans to use that bomb in order to establish their dominance and embark on a communist takeover. America fought to keep their freedom and rights safe from the

The fall of the Soviet Union gave childless American couples the opportunity to adopt needy, white children. Thousands upon thousands of children from Russia and Eastern Europe were adopted in New York during the 1990’s and 2000’s, and the vast majority of these adoptions produced genuinely happy families. The children were excited to have loving families and the adoptive parents were excited to have a child to love. However, some children had difficulty transitioning to life in the United States while others were victims of abuse. Almost every adoptive case I worked with had a happy ending. Every adoptive case except for one. I hesitate to say that the “child” in question was actually a child. Sometimes I think that I legitimately was dealing with pure evil in human form.

After a series of events during the time of World War II, tensions between the United States and the Communists such as the Soviet Union and China, developed into a military and political conflict such as the Cold War. During the Cold War, which went on for 50 years, the Soviet Union and the United States competed to expand their economical and political influence. Although, the United States military has increased in size and it’s strategy. The United States power today is highly supreme when it comes to competing with other countries in the world. The United States is the world 's largest producer of nuclear power, holding an immense amount of nuclear and atomic bombs, accounting for more than big percentage of worldwide nuclear

The Cold War was a state of political hostility between the U.S and the Soviet bloc, the most powerful nations in the world. The two countries fought together as allies in World War II but toward the end of the War the two nations competing ideologies and visions of the post War prevented them from working together. The Cold War was by far the biggest threat to human existence the world has ever seen, although their was never any declaration of War between the two competing nations, the Soviet Union and the United States both had weapons of mass destruction, that was capable of destroying human life as we know today. From the end of World War II up until the collapse of the Soviet Union the two nations competed in expanding their spheres of influence throughout the world. By 1960 Communism had maintained a high degree of focus, coordination, discipline, and strategic coherence in spreading its ideologies throughout the world,the West seemed to be quite the opposite. In discussing the Cold War throughout this period, you will catch a glimpse of the various events that put the united states and the West on the defensive against communism.

Firstly, the fall of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War that had been going on between it and the United States since the end of World War II. This let the United States rejoice instead of being absorbed in the Cold War. Also, the dissolution of the Soviet Union changed political, economic, and military alliances across the world. Furthermore, the area that the Soviet Union had once owned was then the Commonwealth of Independent States. These newly separated countries had total political independence as well as having ties to other countries in the Commonwealth by economic and sometimes military ties. As effects of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Cold War ended and other countrys’ alliances were

With the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, the government model of a totalitarian state led socialism was utterly discredited and thus popular opinion is largely against the relevance of Marxist theory in the 21st century. As a result we are left with the alternative, capitalism, as the pinnacle of human social organization and dialectically the end of human history. The fact that this system has proven to be efficient at industrial development and the allocation of resources, is not up for debate, however many of the flaws that Marx had criticised still exist today. This is the problem that keeps Marxism relevant in contemporary society. Key aspects of capitalist society have been proven to be unstable, tension between the workers and the ownership class has risen. Both are products of the inhumane economics system that is the status quo today.

Prior to Putin’s 2001 State of the Nation address, Russia was dealing with the overwhelming effects of economic and political reform. The fall of Communism and the Soviet Union left Russia in a fragile state. When Putin references “the period of disintegration of the Statehood” he is referring to the lack of stability and legitimacy in Russia’s era of reformation in the 1990s that threatened the very existence of the nation. The sources and indicators of this disintegration can be found through an analysis of Russia’s economic, political, and social struggles throughout this period of reform. However, 21st century Russia no longer is grappling with the same issues of the 1990s. Russia has removed itself from a state of disintegration which can be seen through economic growth, moderate population growth, formation of a common identity, effective foreign policy initiatives, and an ability to provide some level of legitimacy to the Putin regime. Yet, in the coming decades Russia still faces political and economic challenges that could lead the nation back on a path of disintegration.

The Holodomor refers to faime disaster in the Ukraine From 1932 to 1933. Holodomor translates to “death by hunger”, it resulted in the starvation and eventual death of millions of Ukraine people. It is considered a genocide by 25 countries, and the United Nations. This was the direct result of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Republic, who wanted to diminish Ukrainian nationalism, and control the grain production of Soviets. This was done successfully by the process of collectivisation, and intentional starvation of his people. This calamity was entirely preventable, as food was being produced, but only used to export, leaving the people of the Ukraine starving. Although it only lasted a few years this genocide left effects on the Ukraine that are still seen today. This catastrophe broke several human rights laws, by depriving Ukrainians of a standard living, freedom of religion, and their property.

The collapse of the Soviet Union left a gap in the educational system of the Soviet republics including Ukraine (Polese 47). Since independence the Ukrainian Constitution guarantees compulsory education for all children and provides federal funds to public schools (4). Every child has a chance to go to elementary school and middle school: however, only 30 percent of school graduates have a chance to go to higher education, especially in agricultural areas of the country [2]. Another major problem for Ukraine’s education system is academic corruption [1]. Students who can’t pass exams always have an option to pay the professor and have a good grade without any knowledge of the subject. Overall, the nation’s education system does not meet the needs of the business, resulting in high unemployment rates [2]. Ensuring quality education for children and adults will make Ukraine competitive in world economies.

a whimper. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union saw the rise of a new generation

The third scenario is probably the most traumatic. It is a chaotic collapse of the Eurozone, starting in Greece but spreading to Spain and Italy. The core countries will be more disconnected from the current crisis and will not feel responsibility for the consequences of unsuitable decisions made in the European Commission. Countries suffering the crisis will come to the conclusion that the core countries have achieved competitiveness and success at the expenses of other European countries. The danger of this scenario is that the breakup can be violent, similar to the disintegration of Yugoslavia where the core countries will try to hold the peripheral ones. There is also the possibility that politicians at the core countries may considerate a peaceful dissolution due to the cost of carrying the periphery countries is greater than maintaining the Union and will decide in the end that the dissolution will be the best option (similar to the disintegration of the Soviet Union). In the case the disintegration of the Union will be peacefully, the core and northern counties of the European Union will form a new “selected club” of countries with tight economic measures and a very restricted right of admission.