Friday, May 7, 2010

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.

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