What elements of the economy do you think the Soviet Union would have opened up? What elements of their political society would they rebuild or reorganize

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Explanation:

The Soviet Union would have introduce more characteristics from market economy and more autonomy to State-owned businesses, and even promoted some forms of private and associative forms of property. In politics, the Soviet Union would have accepted the existence of other political parties and renounce to the one party system.

a.   it resulted in widespread unemployment.

2018 means 2018 ce or common era

there have been other eras too including bce, which included way more years.