The Collapse of Communism

Between the years of 1989 and 1991 the warsaw pact began to negate communism. This led to communism beginning to collapse in almost all the communist countries in europe and the Soviet union. It was like a series of dominos one regime fell and the next one and so one because in june 1989 the wall of berlin collapsed and west germany and east germany were united after years of separation.

Then after that same year Czechoslovakia resigned to the communism regime and a bit later a revolution was occurred kicking out the ruler of Romania, followed by the bulgarians in 1990-91. Mikhail Gorbachev was a big influence on this collapse because he changed his policies that made the soviet union stronger while he really didn't care much about other and communism. So when this happened other countries just got "attacked" and were switched to democratic/ capitalist countries.

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

From the moment Mikhail Gorbachev this sparked the start of a second russian revolution. With Mikhail Gorbachev party’s new general secretary his ideas where not to follow stalin's ideas but his owns. Since before russia was a totalitarian place ideas and economic ideas did not flow so he decided to induct the Glasnost.

This policy allowed to open ideas to society so they can discuss and give ideas on how to make a better society. This man really wanted to help is country rise from a deficit that was unknown before because no one would tell the people and russians would be told they had the best life possible. Also that they were living so much better than the americans when in the end they were living worse, maybe ten times as worse.

This was a great success and helped the russians but still the people complained about waiting hours for a few rations of food and Mikhail Gorbachev blamed the Soviet Union for not be able to plan well so he inducted Peristrokia which allowed people to build their own factories and open small businesses.

Then he mad a third policy named democratization which was a spark for people to vote for their leaders and also he realized the arms race was to much for russia to handle and was a big part of their slump so the signed a Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with president Regan. Due to all these changes in policies the collapse of communism came to russia and soon to other parts of europe.