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On December 25th 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union handing all his powers, including the nuclear launch codes, to Boris Yeltsin as the first President of the Russian Federation. The flag of the Soviet Union was then lowered over the Kremlin that evening to be replaced by the Russian tricolour flag. The following day, the Supreme Soviet recognised the independence of the former Soviet Republics, formerly dissolved in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or U.S.S.R.
We have lived since then in a world largely dominated by the United States as the only major super-power. This has also expressed itself in near universal support for liberalism, which Francis Fukuyama described as "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, do you believe that we would have been better off if the Soviet Union had survived to the present day? Would the world have been better off with a continuing economic, political and ideological challenger to the United States, to liberal democracy and capitalism? Or would the world have been more dangerous as a result, arguably continuing the Cold War?
We have lived since then in a world largely dominated by the United States as the only major super-power. This has also expressed itself in near universal support for liberalism, which Francis Fukuyama described as "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."
As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, do you believe that we would have been better off if the Soviet Union had survived to the present day? Would the world have been better off with a continuing economic, political and ideological challenger to the United States, to liberal democracy and capitalism? Or would the world have been more dangerous as a result, arguably continuing the Cold War?
