Soviet collapse
Superpower's sudden end
The Soviet collapse refers to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, when the communist superpower fragmented into fifteen independent republics.
The phrase appears in historical and political discussions: The Soviet collapse reshaped global politics, Economic turmoil following the Soviet collapse.
It often implies sudden, dramatic failure of a seemingly permanent system.
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
- planned economyCentralized resource allocation system
- satellite statesNations controlled by another
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
stagnation · Boris Yeltsin · Brezhnev Doctrine · command economy · political dissent · decentralization · privatization · cultural revival · hyperinflation · bread lines · empty shelves · shock therapy · civil unrest · coup attempts · black market · authoritarianism · democratization · trade deficits
Soviet collapseRussian Revolution
Soviet founding upheaval
Bolshevik Revolution · October Revolution · Soviet expansion
Soviet collapseviolent overthrow
soviet, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, collapsible, lapse, lapsed, lapses