What type of economy eventually led to the soviet unions collapse?
A command economy and then a demand economy after perestroika was introducted by Gorbachev. The economy was under government control for so long, when Gorbachev gave companies more lenecy they weren’t able to supply enough to the demanding consumers. copied and pasted from first link: The Communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Communist rule and Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into Russia and 14 other independent republics. copy and pasted from the second link: perestroika (pur’estroy’ku) [key], Soviet economic and social policy of the late 198
