Brezhnev's Economic Stagnation
The years under the leadership of Brezhnev in the USSR can be defined as years of political rigidity and economic stagnation. We will take an in depth look at what Brezhnev did or didn’t do to help the USSR. First, we have to understand what a command economy is. A command economy according to Webster Dictionary is “an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.” A good example of a command economy today is China. They are going away from this type of government, but they are still rooted in this type of government. The USSR was a command economy as well, but going away from its roots is what might have lead to the fall. The government of the Soviets made all of the decisions when it
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There were very few positives that came out of the Brezhnev rule. A positive that came out of that administration was a shift from the focus being all industrial capital goods to mixing in consumer goods for the people. This was not that big since he went back to more Stalinist ideas about the rights of the people. He took away more rights from the people. The biggest classification of the Brezhnev years is known as the Era of Stagnation. We will always remember Brezhnev for the start of the end of the Soviet Union. He started to led the USSR away from the original ideas of the government such as economic isolation. Another reason leading to the start of the downfall of the Soviet Union was the non necessary invasion of Afghanistan. As well for the way that the Soviet Union handled the Prague Springs. The United States and Western European countries were starting to be able to relate to the Soviets until Brezhnev. We always had to stay on edge with the Soviets. The policies and actions that occurred under the rule of Brezhnev led to less trust from the United States and other countries. The Soviets went away from the classic command economy, and this led to the slip ups of the government. They did not understanding their stopping point. Even some government officials did not agree with one another when it came to the choices they made. The years under Brezhnev can be classified as the beginning of the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist
There were very few positives that came out of the Brezhnev rule. A positive that came out of that administration was a shift from the focus being all industrial capital goods to mixing in consumer goods for the people. This was not that big since he went back to more Stalinist ideas about the rights of the people. He took away more rights from the people. The biggest classification of the Brezhnev years is known as the Era of Stagnation. We will always remember Brezhnev for the start of the end of the Soviet Union. He started to led the USSR away from the original ideas of the government such as economic isolation. Another reason leading to the start of the downfall of the Soviet Union was the non necessary invasion of Afghanistan. As well for the way that the Soviet Union handled the Prague Springs. The United States and Western European countries were starting to be able to relate to the Soviets until Brezhnev. We always had to stay on edge with the Soviets. The policies and actions that occurred under the rule of Brezhnev led to less trust from the United States and other countries. The Soviets went away from the classic command economy, and this led to the slip ups of the government. They did not understanding their stopping point. Even some government officials did not agree with one another when it came to the choices they made. The years under Brezhnev can be classified as the beginning of the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist