Answer:
China 1852–70.
Weimar Germany in the 1920s.
The Great Depression of the 1930s.
The Eastern Bloc in the 1980s and 90s.
Russian financial crisis of 1998.
1998–2002 Argentine great depression.
Zimbabwe economic crisis (2000-present)
Venezuela economic crisis (2013–present)
Explanation:
The space race was one and the Soviet spent a lot of money on other things to that lead them to go bankrupt and the Soviet Union to fall
Yes he did start the reformation on his own