Economic and Political Decline of the USSR
Analyse the systemic economic weaknesses and political stagnation within the Soviet Union by the 1980s. Students will explore how these internal factors contributed to the eventual collapse.
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Analyse the systemic economic weaknesses and political stagnation within the Soviet Union by the 1980s. Students will explore how these internal factors contributed to the eventual collapse.
Key Questions
- What were the fundamental structural weaknesses of the Soviet command economy?
- How did political stagnation under Brezhnev weaken the USSR?
- To what extent was the Soviet system unreformable?
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