The contributing factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union [USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)]

<Tab/>The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which was established in 1922, was the first communist state in the world. Run by the general secretary, the equivalent of the position of the president in the United States, the communist party controlled the government, and the government controlled all of the industry and agriculture. Yet, under such strict government control, the Soviet Union ended in collapse in the year 1991. The main contributing …

…its final resolution which acknowledged the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On December 31st, the first Communist state ceased its remaining tasks. The USSR no longer existed. A streak of seemingly unsolvable economic problems and the reactions to the former made by the Communist Party leaders ended up sending the USSR into a downward spiral towards collapse. The Soviet Union's apparatus of oppression was finally shut down after almost a century of its people's struggles.