Say through some miracle the USSR survives, what would the effects be?
For the purpose of this WI say the USSR is no longer communist, but rather then breaking apart a new constitution or something is made between the various soviet states that still makes them all one government. Maybe the only thing controlled by the soviet government is foreign relations and defense while everything else is given to the different part.
Would the entirety of the USSR become like the Russia of today? Or would it be more successful?