The “Non-Deep” Causes of the Disintegration of the Soviet Union

... national unification, and adherence to or betrayal of socialism does not mean a choice between unification and disintegration, nor does it necessarily lead to the breakup of a country. Andrey Kortunov: Only Now Do We See the Real Disintegration of the USSR So, attributing the collapse of the Soviet Union to political treachery makes no sense in theory or in practice. The tsarist Russia was the originator of the Russian empire, and the Soviet Union was the successor of the Russian empire. There was ...