These revolutions accelerated the transformation of the pre- dominantly agrarian societies of the late feudal period into societies dominated by the urban bourgeoisie. They thus paved the way for capitalist industrialization. A comparable instance of the existing relations of production blocking the development of the forces of production was at the origin of the shock wave that, beginning with Poland in 1980, overturned all the Central and Eastern European “communist” regimes and cul- minated in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR). **NOTE: Can you explain the top sentences, in your own words as much as possible with details.

These revolutions accelerated the transformation of the pre- dominantly agrarian societies of the late feudal period into societies dominated by the urban bourgeoisie. They thus paved the way for capitalist industrialization. A comparable instance of the existing relations of production blocking the development of the forces of production was at the origin of the shock wave that, beginning with Poland in 1980, overturned all the Central and Eastern European “communist” regimes and cul- minated in the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR). **NOTE: Can you explain the top sentences, in your own words as much as possible with details.