TRAGEDY OF THE USSR COLLAPSE: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS
The author's view at the historical, economic and world politics precondition of the USSR collapse in1991 is set out in the article. Though USA and NATO as external adversaries at cold war era exerted every efforts fortheir geopolitical and ideological reasons to crash the Soviet Union and those efforts with no doubt became one ofthe decisive factors in this national and world disaster, the tragedy's roots may be found in our own country powerstructure specifics as it had been existed after the Revolution and in the Soviet State organization itself. Thisorganization has not only created conditions for the great historical victories of the state and the people, but forgradually creation of conditions (particularly after Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin and Gorbachev's Perestroika)for disintegration of ruling party as a framework of Soviet society and then the whole country. Moral degradation ofparty and state ruling elite and gradual people's weakening of faith in prospects of communist ideals practicalrealization (connected first of all with people's relatively law quality of life and pour information support of the reforms,the lack of people's believe to national media coverage of domestic and foreign policy problems of the Soviet Union)played decisive negative role also. More critical was lack of well thought out system of planned ruling elite rotation(the country's leaders included) and real sovereignty of the people as basis for democratic society's political structure.