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  1. December 26, 1991
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    The failed coup attempt in August 1991 against Gorbachev by hardline communists hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union, which formally dissolved on December 26, 1991, ending nearly seven decades of Soviet rule.
    The U.S.S.R. was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991.
     
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    Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government … See more

    1985: Gorbachev elected
    Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo on 11 March 1985, just over four hours after his predecessor See more

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    Economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality
    In the decades following the end of the Cold War, only five … See more

    Historiography on the Soviet collapse can be roughly classified in two groups: intentionalist accounts and structuralist accounts.
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    U.S. television coverage of Mikhail Gorbachev's December 25, 1991 speech to the Soviet people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCltB4lB2-M Retrieved from YouTube on July 31, 2024. See more

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    Moscow loses control
    In 1988, Gorbachev started to lose control of two regions of the Soviet Union, as the Baltic republics were now leaning towards independence, and the Caucasus descended into … See more

    In 2013, the American Gallup analytics company found that a majority of citizens in four former Soviet countries regretted the dissolution of the … See more

     
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