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Summary What explains the fall of the USSR, c.?

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Edexcel History A-Level notes for the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in 1991, focusing on the following factors: 1. Economic weaknesses and the failure of reform 2. Gorbachev's political reforms 3. The impact of nationalist resurgence 4. Gorbachev and Yeltsin

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What explains the fall of the USSR, c.1985-91?

1. Economic weaknesses and the failure of reform
a) Long-term economic weaknesses
 1928-late 1980s – the Soviet economy was a command economy (centrally
directed)  under Stalin, it was a success e.g. the Five-Year Plan turned Russia
into an industrial giant:
 Russia’s economy strengthened against the Nazis
during WWII
 By 1945, the Russian economy was the fastest growing
in the worlde.g. mid-1950s = 7.1% growth, whereas the
US was at 2.9% - however, under Khrushchev, the
economic growth declined 1958-63 = 5.3% and the
USSR had to partake in the arms race – under Brezhnev,
growth was at 2%and in 1980, it fell to 0.6%




1945-1980– the gap Gosplan (State Planning
between the rich and Committee) believed that
poor closed e.g. richest quantity>quality e.g.
10% were only 3x richer Gosplan demanded
than bottom 10% 400,000 tractors every
year but 20% were never
used

No incentive to work hard =
low labour productivity
Waste


b) Fundamental
Centralisation Soviet economy never
economic weaknesses fully modernised


Production could
not be maximised Arms race with the e.g. Soviet agriculture
US lacked sophisticated
machinery; farms
e.g. 1956-80 – required more labour
sugar beet 1965-1985  GDP spent on arms than US farms; food
increased by 28% increased from 12% to 17% transport never
but in North modernised
Dakota, production
rose by 191%
American defence was 6% over the
same period

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