Answer:
There were many factors
Explanation:
Within a year, the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. While it is, for all practical purposes, impossible to pinpoint a single cause for an event as complex and far-reaching as the dissolution of a global superpower, a number of internal and external factors were certainly at play in the collapse of the U.S.S.R. When oil plunged from $120 a barrel in 1980 to $24 a barrel in March 1986, this vital lifeline to external capital dried up. The price of oil temporarily spiked in the wake of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, but by that point the collapse of the Soviet Union was well under way. People also saw that communism did in fact make most people equal, but just equally poor and there were still a few at power that were very rich, so it just made the rich richer and destroyed the chance the lower and middle class had to become upper class and merged both middle and lower class into a single class that was barely above the lower class but still lower than the middle class.
