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