Нow the Soviet Union Could be Preserved (Baltic Angle)

The historical experience of the world's first socialist state and the reasons for its collapse is a fundamental problem not only in Russian, but also in foreign social studies. In the context of the globalization of the economy and the emergence of regional forms of association of states, one of which is the EU, the experience of the USSR is in demand: the integration of states that differ in socio-cultural characteristics, common patterns are inherent. The EU is solving the same systemic problems and experiencing the same difficulties as the USSR. This is due to the diversity of the countries that make up the unions, and the uneven development of their countries. The article substantiates the role of the subjective factor, including the ability of managers to use the experience of the most developed countries, the understanding of which is the basis for overall development. In the USSR, these are the Baltic republics, the population of which most acutely felt the need for radical reforms. The article examines the proposals prepared in this region for the country's recovery from the crisis and the attempts made to encourage the leadership of the USSR to reform, the rejection of which led to the collapse of the country.

Keywords

crisis of centralization, the largest catastrophe of the twentieth century, subjective factor of the historical process

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01.08.2021

Publication date

27.09.2021

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31871

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GOST	Simonyan R. Нow the Soviet Union Could be Preserved (Baltic Angle) // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 8 C. 62-71 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250014595-7-1-en (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014595-7
MLA	Simonyan, Renal'd Kh "Нow the Soviet Union Could be Preserved (Baltic Angle)." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 8 (2021):62-71. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014595-7
APA	Simonyan R. (2021). Нow the Soviet Union Could be Preserved (Baltic Angle). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (8), pp.62-71 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014595-7

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