How Did The Economy Affect The Soviet Economy
Soviet economy
First, let's see what conditions the Soviet economy had at its launch. It is known that Tsarist Russia was at one of the last places among the capitalist countries to produce industrial products per capita. In the middle of the 20th century, far ahead of Russia in terms of industrial production were the United States, Britain, Germany, and France. In tsarist Russia, cars, tractors, combines, powerful steam and gas turbines, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, equipment for various industries, and much more, extremely important for the development of the economy, were not produced. The Russian economy of that period was an agrarian-industrial one. In 1917, as a consequence of the First World War, the level of industrial …show more content…
However, personally I believe that the USSR had the opportunity to change everything, although many scientists, still cannot find an answer to this question. For example, the Republic of China at that time could prevent the crisis of the socialist system, it was just necessary to find the right approach. In my opinion, the USSR was blinded by all that was happening around at that time. For the USSR it was very important to surpass all the republics and countries that surrounded them and because of this, the USSR was drawn into many situations that had a negative effect on the USSR and which could easily be avoided. However, the government did not pay attention to the needs of citizens and competed with other countries in such things as flying into space and nuclear weapons. The above reflections, which cannot, of course, be considered as a thorough analysis of the causes of the collapse of the USSR, allow, nevertheless, to draw some generalized …show more content…
This means that, despite the existence of a number of objective prerequisites for the destruction of the Soviet system, theoretically the USSR could continue to exist, although it is difficult to say how long and how successfully. At the same time, one cannot exclude the possibility that the collapse of the USSR would not only be possible, but inevitable. However, after analyzing all the reasons, even though it is hard to point out one reason, I personally think that political system was something that failed the most because the government of the USSR did not cope with the task of overcoming economic problems and did not take seriously the secondary factors that ultimately brought them down. The government missed the moment when secondary factors began to exert huge problems on the USSR, and the development of the economy and the arms race took a back
First, let's see what conditions the Soviet economy had at its launch. It is known that Tsarist Russia was at one of the last places among the capitalist countries to produce industrial products per capita. In the middle of the 20th century, far ahead of Russia in terms of industrial production were the United States, Britain, Germany, and France. In tsarist Russia, cars, tractors, combines, powerful steam and gas turbines, diesel locomotives, electric locomotives, equipment for various industries, and much more, extremely important for the development of the economy, were not produced. The Russian economy of that period was an agrarian-industrial one. In 1917, as a consequence of the First World War, the level of industrial …show more content…
However, personally I believe that the USSR had the opportunity to change everything, although many scientists, still cannot find an answer to this question. For example, the Republic of China at that time could prevent the crisis of the socialist system, it was just necessary to find the right approach. In my opinion, the USSR was blinded by all that was happening around at that time. For the USSR it was very important to surpass all the republics and countries that surrounded them and because of this, the USSR was drawn into many situations that had a negative effect on the USSR and which could easily be avoided. However, the government did not pay attention to the needs of citizens and competed with other countries in such things as flying into space and nuclear weapons. The above reflections, which cannot, of course, be considered as a thorough analysis of the causes of the collapse of the USSR, allow, nevertheless, to draw some generalized …show more content…
This means that, despite the existence of a number of objective prerequisites for the destruction of the Soviet system, theoretically the USSR could continue to exist, although it is difficult to say how long and how successfully. At the same time, one cannot exclude the possibility that the collapse of the USSR would not only be possible, but inevitable. However, after analyzing all the reasons, even though it is hard to point out one reason, I personally think that political system was something that failed the most because the government of the USSR did not cope with the task of overcoming economic problems and did not take seriously the secondary factors that ultimately brought them down. The government missed the moment when secondary factors began to exert huge problems on the USSR, and the development of the economy and the arms race took a back