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Discuss the collapse of the Soviet Union and its impact on international politics.
- UPSC 2015, 2004
- 15 marks
- Changing International Political Order
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A superpower holding a sixth of the world's land and more than thirty thousand warheads dissolved on 26 December 1991 without invasion or civil war, because its own republics decided it should. The collapse removed one pole of the post-1945 order, and its consequences are still unfolding.
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- Why the Union collapsed
- Impact on international politics
- The long shadow
- Conclusion
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