Disintegration of the Soviet Union — Chapter Summary
ICSE · Class 11 · Political Science
Summary of Disintegration of the Soviet Union for ICSE Class 11 Political Science. Part of the ICSE Class 11 Political Science syllabus.
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Overview
The disintegration of the Soviet Union was one of the most important political changes of the twentieth century. It ended the Cold War, destroyed the Soviet socialist system, and led to the rise of new sovereign states. The chapter explains how internal weakness, economic discontent, political refor
Key Concepts
Cold War was a state
Cold War was a state of intensive political, economic, and ideological competition between rival blocs that stopped short of all-out war. It began aft
Détente was the movement from bipolarity
Détente was the movement from bipolarity to multipolarity after 1953, when tensions between the two superpowers began to ease through negotiation and
The socialist bloc began to weaken
The socialist bloc began to weaken when Yugoslavia broke with Stalin in 1948, Albania left the Warsaw Pact in 1961, and later Poland, Hungary, Czechos
Stalin built a command economy
Stalin built a command economy, crushed opposition, and turned the dictatorship of the proletariat into personal dictatorship. After his death, the sy
Gorbachev became Soviet leader in March
Gorbachev became Soviet leader in March 1985 and introduced glasnost, perestroika, and new thinking in foreign policy. Glasnost meant openness, and pe
Learning Objectives
- Understand the meaning of the Cold War and détente
- Explain the cracks that developed in the socialist bloc after 1948
- Identify the major causes of the disintegration of the Soviet Union
- Describe the role of Gorbachev's reforms in the collapse of the USSR
- Explain the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States
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