A) people lost their jobs because of new technology. If anything people would gain jobs more than they would lose them because of a technology that technically talks to you. It just makes no sense to lose your job because of a radio.
Two things that were severely hurting the Soviet economy just prior to its fall were "A. The agricultural and manufacturing sectors were not meeting peoples' needs", since this was a "command economy" in which the government was in control of output.
What caused the panic of 1893?
