Why did The Soviet Command Economy fail? The soviet command economy was a system of state ownership of the means of production also the USSR viewed the Marshall plan guaranteed. “American loans in return for the relinquishing by the European states of their economic and later also the political independence” which is stated in the “World History and Geography book” chapter 18. The soviet union had become involved in growing arms which is also stated in the “world history and geography book” chapter. The soviet union also had weakness which were the reason why it failed, one of the weaknesses was that the soviet economy never recovered from the collectivization of agriculture according to “histclo.com”, as a result “agriculture did not provide
