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Discuss the positive and negative impacts of Soviet Union’s disintegration on developing nations.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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The dissolution of the USSR on 26 December 1991 ended the bipolar structure within which most of Asia, Africa and Latin America had won independence. Within about three years it changed how developing states borrowed, traded, armed themselves and bargained, with gains and losses distributed very unevenly.

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