I surprisingly don’t know as much of the dissolution of the USSR as I would hope. I know that 70%+ of every polled nation wanted a reformed Soviet Union not dissolution, but why did it get to that point. Did things slowly decline since Khrushchev, since Brezhnev, or later? What led to the liberalization of their statesmen? Like, Gorbachev and Yeltsin (I think?) were involved in government, how did this happen? Were Glasnost and Perestroika the killing blow after a long time coming or were they the first of their kind? Do most communists dislike both of these policies or were they decent ideas that were fucked up in implementation? Thanks in advance I don’t know enough about the details of the USSR’s fall
Watch this <- Comrade Finbol
Read the first chapter of this
As far as the roots of the issue, this is beyond me at this current time. I would guess mistakes were inevitable considering this had never been done before (mistakes which Mao went on to identify), and because from my understanding (through dialog with other comrades, I have not read this in theory) they treated WW2 like a strike as opposed to a country throwing the most radical elements against the grinder to protect the proletariat, but this left the class de-radicalized and so Stalin was soon surrounded by opportunists in the central committee.
The links I provided hold a world of insight, I highly recommend checking them out.