Why did the collapse of the communist regime in the Soviet Union have such a negative impact? ... The anti-Soviet revolution in 1991 shattered the authoritarian grasp of the Soviet Union's communist party. ... The result of his erratic, confusing, zigzagging was the putsch of August 1991, the collapse of Soviet Union. ... With the demise of the Soviet Union, the command economy ended and the economic structure and institution struggled to survive (Colton, Legvold 49). ... The high rate of inflation in 1992 was caused by "the continuing monetization of economic activity without control over...

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