HIS410_Week_7_Communism.docx Option 1: Examine the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1980s.

HIS410_Week_7_Communism.docx  Option 1: Examine the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1980s. Include the following in your discussion:  ï‚·What were the main reasons for the collapse?  ï‚·What role did the constant state of militarism and the costs of keeping up with the U.S. military buildup have on the Soviet economy?  ï‚·What role did uprisings and rebellions in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and East Germany (among others) have on the sudden collapse of the USSR?  ï‚·Please use a minimum of 2 scholarly sources no older than 2016.   Collapse of the Soviet Union  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unraveled in 1991 after sixty-nine years of existence. While the USSR had a strong start in the 1920s, unaffected by the Great Depression, it struggled in the 1950s and weakened as the decades went by. The USSRs collapse was not sudden, and it can be attributed to detrimental factors of the Cold War such as high military expenditures, a foreign policy rife with nationalist sentiment and an economy incapacitated by stagnation.   Going back before the USSRs well-intentioned beginnings, as early as the eighteenth-century, agricultural societies started to become industrialized. The creation of goods moved from the rural homes and farms to the urban factories. At the turn of the twentieth century, the disruptive technology of the Industrial Revolution had already taken hold of the world for over one hundred years. The economic upheaval brought railroads, electricity, airplanes, cruise ships such as the Titanic