In the early 1990s, the U.S.S.R. was embarking on a series of structural social and economic reforms that were designed to completely alter its failed political and ideological history. At the same time, the U.S.A. was a far more surefooted country with a solid history of stability. Describe two (2) countries today that share at least some of those same circumstances, and which one (1) seems in the better position.