Corruption Of The Soviet Union Essay

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There are several facts and events that led to collapse of the Soviet Union even the hardliners tries to restore. It was the destiny of death sentence for communism.
It was hard to reconstruct the USSR, especially after the death of Stalin in 1954. Obviously, the people of Russia know how corruption of the system of communism is. The more the communists had tried, yet it got even worse ,although the Soviet Union replace Perestroika to Yeltsin, in which he was "the last straw for a group of eight antireform hard-liners", their own communist returns against them, defeating the communists (textbook 4th Ed, pg 990). The struggles of reformation of the Soviet Union are complex due to its aftermath and besides that the most concerned will be the inner system of its own corruption. Because before the ideology of Communism is that V.I Lenin uses the ideas of socialism and merges to his theories;
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But most politicians see this as opportunities and take advantage, under the rule of Stalin was quite difficult to revolt however after his death people just starts rebelling. Nonetheless, the inner corruption wasn't just the main issue. Additional economic crisis, starvation, and the conflict against Islam in Afghanistan, in which was an ironic incident that the Soviet Union was supposed to restore their economy rather "it helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet bloc", additional to when technology was involved, "global communications technology, international trade, and the ongoing protests of workers, artists, and intellectuals showed Soviet's citizens that another way of life was possible" comparing to

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