Question

Birgit Beumers writes (p.11): "Throughout the Soviet era, the state and the dissidents had shared a common ground..." What was that common ground?

Answer 1

Commercialization

Step-by-step explanation:

In the text written by Birgit Beumers, both the communist and dissidents were against commercialization. The communist who were socialist believed that commercialization will reduce their grip on power and the people as the citizens will have control over factors of production, On the other hand the strong point of the dissidents, on which they campaigned on was the introduction of a non socialist government, a more commercial economy, However, with the increase in commercialization, the dissidents no longer have a strong point to convince the people with, thus they were also against the development.