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In this chapter, I share own experience of living in the Soviet Union. The chapter explains why the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, leaving in its wake severe governance challenges, poverty, corruption, mismanagement, distrust, emigration, crime, conflicts, defunct economic systems and institutions and disoriented citizens.
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This corruption was rooted out after 2005 when university admission decisions shifted from universities to a centralized admission system administered by the National Examination Centre.
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Gvindadze, D. (2023). The Soviet Union—The Twilight. In: The Transformation of Georgia from 2004 to 2012. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18264-8_2
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