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Gorbachev and the Soviet Union by Ralph Ryan Silvestre is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 due to various economic, political, and social factors that had been weakening it for decades. Mikhail Gorbachev attempted reforms to create a hybrid communist-capitalist system and increase freedoms, but this loosening of control empowered criticism of the government and emboldened independence movements among Soviet republics. The Soviet military was overstretched and its economy was severely weakened by U.S. isolation and high military spending, exacerbating public diss
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- Ralph Ryan Silvestre
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