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The various republics and regions that comprised the USSR differed greatly in the standard and quality of life and the level of development (an important issue that became a sore spot during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991). Which of the republics listed below were - during the Soviet times - predominantly rural, agricultural and industrially under-developed?

Central Asian Republics (Tadjikistan, Kirgiziya [now Kyrgyzstan], Uzbekistan)

Baltic republics (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia)

Central European republics (i.e. Russia)

Eastern European countries (Poland, Bulgaria, etc.)

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Central Asian Republics (Tadjikistan, Kirgiziya [now Kyrgyzstan], Uzbekistan).

Step-by-step explanation:

Agriculture always played an important part in the economies of the Central Asian Soviet Republics., far from the industrialized Baltic republics or Soviet Russia itself.

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