... especially if we take into account that nobody had been working on any contingency plans for the Soviet disintegration in advance.
Analysts offered a variety of explanations for this remarkable feature. In particular, references were made to the cynicism and opportunism of the late Communist nomenklatura, who preferred opportunities for personal enrichment to the continuous commitment to preserving the great Soviet power. It was also noted that the USSR had been a very peculiar entity in which the imperial metropolis had not so much economically exploited its colonial outskirts as had subsidized them at the expense of its own development prospects; many in the Russian Federation had considered the ...
... of the union, but the central government was lacking in either political resolution or the ability to make any responsible decision for saving the union.
It should be noted that the three concepts are often mixed into one, specifically, the collapse of ... ... disbanded, it was possible to keep the country united in a new form if the new regime that succeeded it was strong enough. The USSR was a good example itself, which was created on the ruins of the Russian empire by the Bolshevik party.
From a philosophical ...
... an uproar in the Soviet ministry of defence. In typical Soviet fashion, they presented the counter argument, stating that the USSR should become a maritime power. This was few years before its collapse. Some of these discussions and ideas look naïve these ... ... among liberal Russian politicians— the logic was: we, the Russian elite, deconstructed the Soviet empire and this was our decision. We set those countries free and allowed them to go their own way, and they should be grateful for it. We didn’t try ...
