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Word Count 2745 Are Democratic ideals supported by free markets or undermined by them? In 1991 the world witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and an end to nearly 75 years of communism in Russia. In trying to democratize his nation and restructure its economy whilst at the same time attempting to stick to the ideas and principles of socialism, Gorbachev had presented himself with an enormous challenge, one that he had been unable to meet. It was at this time that Francis Fukyama claimed that history had ended. Fukyama believed that history was essentially the struggle between different ideologies, each trying to gain supremacy over the others. She claimed that the fall of the Soviet Union symbolized the end of all ideological alternatives to capitalism; in short the west had won. As the vast majority of capitalist western countries were also democracies, the connection between the free market economy and...

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