Why Did The Fall Of The Soviet Union In 1966

In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was in a period of domestic crisis, and it took a toll on Soviet society (25-7). The people from the Caucasus and Baltic states demanded more freedom from Moscow, and the Kremlin lost control over certain regions and elements in the Soviet Union (Lumen, Fall of the Soviet Union). The Soviet Union eventually collapsed in 1991, leaving the land to be governed by independent states. China also went through a similar period of instability, but it took longer than their Russian comrades. Their government survived the Cultural Revolution in 1966 by evolving into a combined Leninist command economy with modern Western capitalistic practices, and they crushed a protest movement in 1989 while asserting the dominance of