Belief Quote by Xi Jinping

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would…

— Vladislav Surkov

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“Deng’s judgment about the importance of strong economic growth was later validated by a series of studies of the collapse of the USSR conducted…

— Arthur R. Kroeber

“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the material conditions…

— Masha Gessen

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests –…

— Archie Brown

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

“Nothing in its life so became the Soviet Union as the leaving of it”

— Tony Judt

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of…

— John Mearsheimer