Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism
Mikhail Gorbachev opened up to the Soviet Union by being a communist leader and concentrating on his own ideas. He didn't like the ideas of Stalin on government. Russia was led by totalitarian leaders. The collapse of communism started to happened when Gorbachev brought glasnost and peristroika. These were policies in Russia when it was still a communist country. Glasnost was a, "policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union." Peristroika was a "political and economic reform." These policies was to reform communism. Gorbachev wated to improve Russia's society by the policies and communism was losing control. Russia was becoming more of a democratic country because of the glasnost and peristroika policies and Gorbachev's ways of making Russia a better country. People started to own small businesses ad the economy was starting to be better too.
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