Which sentence describes a major problem facing the soviet union near the end of the cold war?
a. its refusal to support non european communist parties greatly reduced its internal influence.
b. its command economy could not produce enough necessary goods for its citizens.
c. its refusal to agree to nuclear nonproliferation led to its dismissal from the united nations.
d. its proxy wars had backfired and resulted in foreign invasions of soviet territory.

B. Its command economy could not produce enough necessary goods for its citizens.

Explanation:

The Soviet collapse was due to the decline of communist ideology and economic failure. During the 1980’s Ronald Reagan had isolated the soviet economy from the world, by dropping their oil and gas prices, once this happened they began to lose their power in Eastern Europe. Their economy fell to the floor, affecting the whole country.

Northern Italy had commercial success. Trade would have played a big part in this. The ideas of individualism, humanism, and secularism interested many people of the time, mainly because the ideas were so different from the "focus-on-God" idea of the Dark Ages (a time of much death because of war and disease, and very little education - not remembered well). The ideas of the Renaissance were taken from the Greco-Roman time period, a time of much enlightenment. Italian trade with Northern countries would have spread these ideas. The development of the printing press and moveable type enabled books to be printed quickly and spread around much more easily than previously, which meant that new Renaissance ideas were widely read and easily discussed.