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Mind Map by beth.nightingale, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by beth.nightingale
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SUPERPOWER COUNTRY? USSR
- WHAT FORMS OF POWER DID THEY
HAVE?
- Geographic
- in 1991, was the world's largest
state, covering a sixth of the world's
inhabited land
- Worlds 3rd largest population (285 million in 1991)
- large natural reserves of oil and gas
- worlds longest border (60000km). bordered Norway, Finland,
Poland, Hungary, Romania, China, North Korea, Slovakia, Turkey,
Romania, Iran, Afghanistan
- five climate zones: tundra, taiga, steppes, desert, and mountains
- in 1991, was the world's largest
state, covering a sixth of the world's
inhabited land
- Economic
- world's second largest economy in
1990. Exported petroleum, gas, nuclear
fuel
- First planned economy and operated
a state ownership system
- Export partner with the Eastern bloc
- 1989, USSR's GDP was $2500bn
- world's second largest economy in
1990. Exported petroleum, gas, nuclear
fuel
- Cultural
- communist ideology
- communist propoganda particularly in
cinema due to illiterate population
- writers, intellectuals, artists had
work banned due to censorship -
many imprisoned or killed
- communist ideology
- Military
- WW2 victory along with
USA and UK
- By 1930s army was among
the largest in history
- Largest amount of nuclear
weapons
- WW2 victory along with
USA and UK
- Geographic
- How did USSR maintain its
power?
- One party rule - regulating every aspect
of public and private life
- Promoted communist idea that all are
equal - using propoganda to spread its
views
- Repression for those who didn't
obey the rules
- 15 countries were part of
USSR - wide extent of power
- Permanent seat on UN
Security Council
- KGB (USSR secret police, internal security,
intellegence org.) world's most effective info
gathering organisation
- One party rule - regulating every aspect
of public and private life
- What were the implications of USSR power?
- Cold War Period 1985-1991
- comp. between USSR
and USA - world's two
emerging superpowers
- military coalitions, strategic
conventional force
deployments, spying and
intellegence, propoganda,
nuclear races, appeals to
neutral nations, rovalry
- military coalitions, strategic
conventional force
deployments, spying and
intellegence, propoganda,
nuclear races, appeals to
neutral nations, rovalry
- comp. between USSR
and USA - world's two
emerging superpowers
- Cold War Period 1985-1991
- Why did USSR power decline?
- Economic strain
- huge debt after WW2
- after 1975 - fall in oil prices
- Imbalance of spending - more money spent than
it could afford by buying nuclear weapons etc
- couldn't compete with USA's
capitalist economy
- huge debt after WW2
- Needs of the people and
needs of the gov. were very
different "Will of the Masses"
- after loosing space race,
citizens began to lose faith
in government
- By 1980s citizens wanted
westernized products eg McD's,
Pepsi and famous music artists
- Estonia demanded independence in
1987 - domino effect of confidence to
other countries and violent territorial
disputes occurred
- after loosing space race,
citizens began to lose faith
in government
- Economic strain
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