📖 18. Continuing Communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the Present

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About 18. Continuing Communism, collapse and aftermath, 1953 to the Present

After Stalin’s death, Soviet leaders attempted reforms and de-Stalinization but struggled with economic stagnation, bureaucratic inertia, and growing dissent within the communist bloc. Efforts like Khrushchev’s thaw and Gorbachev’s perestroika aimed to revitalize socialism but instead exposed systemic flaws, leading to the peaceful revolutions of 1989 and the USSR’s dissolution in 1991.

The aftermath saw former communist states transition to market economies and democracy with varying success, while Russia experienced turmoil before stabilizing under authoritarian-leaning leadership. Communism persists in modified forms in China, Vietnam, and Cuba, but the collapse of the Soviet model marked the end of the 20th century’s defining ideological struggle.

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