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Originally posted by fuzyfuzer
i am sure that my opinion is not the best regarded becaue i am still in high school but communism stoped working because we pushed there decrepent econoic system and they were coming out with masive social reforms especially in the expansion of schools this increased the amount of people with an opinion and those people saw that they were competative and didn't want to be the same as everyone else capitalsim fed this desire and communism was too weak to suppres it
but that is just the opinion of a lowly high school student 
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Also the reformist policies by the government included shifts away from some of the previous pillars of the soviet system. The 'openness' idea put forward by Gorbachev and his party, helped swing the country away from communism. There were a number of other policies I believe that helped this shift to a capitalist system as well, that aimed at changing the system for the benefit of the Russian/Soviet people. He also allowed the satellite states to become independent without violent reprisals of the past.
So, I believe that what you said was partially correct fuzy, but Gorbachev was just as important in causing the movement towards capitalism in the former Soviet Union.