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The fall of the soviet union, although it was not entirely surprising, rocked. But how are we to explain the power and influence of the. Volume 1, issue 1 of the online journal, soviet history. The dissolution of the soviet union, or collapse of the soviet union, was the process of internal disintegration within the union of soviet socialist republics ussr, also referred to as the soviet union, which began in the second half of the 1980s with growing unrest in the national republics and ended on 26 december 1991, when the ussr. External factors and economic shocks also prevented the soviet union from allocating their resources to their best uses. The quiet collapse of the soviet union arthur jeannerot, may 24 2014, 4853 views. Even now, more than a decade after the fact, the abrupt and largely peaceful end of communist rule in eastern europe and the soviet union seems nearly miraculous.
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