The Collapse of the Soviet Union Explained in Simple Terms 🇷🇺

Discord: https://discord.gg/historyofeverything The Soviet Union, the bastion of Marxist Leninist thinking, fell on the 26th of December 1991. Fukuyama wrote a book calling the period that follows this the "End of History."" In many ways, they were right. It signalled the end of an era for the world and political thinking, but the consequences we are only now just beginning to feel in the West. References Primary Hello Sister clip: https://youtu.be/jLeIx8rrlSc?si=TqjdeU3sIzGHeJin Broadcast. Vremya . Moscow, USSR: Central Television of the USSR, April 28, 1986. derzhavnyy himn Ukrayiny, Pro. "About the national anthem of Ukraine." Zakon Ukrayiny vid 602-IV (2003): 602-15.Fourth Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, Georges Peronansky, and Tatjana Varsavsky. "Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs." (1995). Keller, Bill. “Gorbachev Listens to the People and Gets an Earful.” The New York Times. September 13, 1988. Yeltsin, Boris. "Speech to the Russian Parliament, August 21, 1991." In Russia at the Barricades, Routledge, 2015. Secondary  Bittner, Stephen V. “The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat.” Cornell University Press, 2008. Brown, Archie. "The Power of the General Secretary of the CPSU." In Authority, power and policy in the USSR. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1980. Dawisha, Karen. “The Kremlin and the Prague spring. Vol. 4”. Univ of California Press, 1984. Hughes, Gerain Hosking, Geoffrey A. The awakening of the Soviet Union. Harvard University Press,  1991.t. "The Soviet Afghan War, 1978–1989: An Overview." Defence Studies 8, no. 3 (2008): 326-350. Kamrany, Nake M., and David T. Killian. "Effects of Afghanistan War on Soviet Society and Policy." International Journal of Social Economics 19, no. 7/8/9 (1992): 129-151. Lewin, Moshe. "Russian peasants and soviet power-a study of collectivization." Russian peasants and soviet power-a study of collectivization. (1968). Malko, Mikhail V. "The chernobyl reactor: design features and reasons for accident." Recent research activities about the Chernobyl NPP accident in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia (2002): 11. Marples, David R., and David R. Marples. "The Effects of The Chernobyl Disaster." Ukraine under Perestroika: Ecology, Economics and the Workers’ Revolt (1991): 17-48. Mastny, Vojtech, and Malcolm Byrne, eds. “A cardboard castle? an inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991.” Central European University Press, 2005. McKenzie, Brent. "Twenty years on–retailer advertising during and since the fall of the Soviet Union: Tallinna Kaubamaja,“Estonia’s Department Store”." In Handbook of research on international advertising, pp. 179-197. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012. Moberg, Leif. "The Chernobyl fallout in Sweden." (1991). Plokhy, Serhii. “Chernobyl: History of a tragedy.” Penguin UK, 2018. Plokhy, Serhii. “The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union.” Hachette UK, 2015. Schmid, Sonja D. Producing power: The pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry. MIT Press, 2015. Shevtsova, Lilia. "The August coup and the Soviet collapse." Survival 34, no. 1 (1992):  Smith, David James. “The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Vol. 11”. Psychology Press, 2002. Tompson, William J. “The Soviet Union under Brezhnev”. Routledge, 2014.  Wells, Ludmilla Gricenko. "Western concepts, Russian perspectives: Meanings of advertising in the former Soviet Union." Journal of Advertising 23, no. 1 (1994):  Yurievna, GLINSKAYA Irina. "The Role of the Symbol in the Process of Formation of the Image of the State." ISSN 2078-9025 № 3 (32) сентябрь 2016 Серия «РеГионалиСтика и этноПолитика» 3 (2016): 42.и этноПолитика» 3 (2016): 42.