>The USSR is a classic example of
hydrallic despotism, only it controlled the population by controlling labor itself. It is highly unlikely it would have collapsed on its own. If that were the case, then China should have as well, as its internal economic policies were much more disastrous than Soviet ones.
Did you read the links at all? Did you read any detailed analysis of the collapse of the USSR at all? Does not sound like it.
Walter,