Week 5: Discussion 1 & 2

Week 5: Discussion 1 & 2

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Fall of Communism and Rise of Globalization

The Soviet Union collapsed was because after the death of Stalin, the economy, politics and ideology and Soviet satellite countries clashed with increasing intensity. Its backwardness, its rigidity and the absence of a clear framework for a single course to follow, marked its collapse, forcing a perestroika also fail. On the other hand, it is clear that this collapse was not due to the United States (or "supporters of the Western alliance") having won the Cold War, but in reverse (Beissinger, 2009). ...