The Importance of Gorbachev in bring about the End of the Cold War
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- The Importance of Gorbachev in bringing about the End of the Cold War
- came to power in 1985 and needed to introduce change to deal with the severe economic policies
- Glasnost and Perestroika
- Perestroika = restructuring the economy and relaxing centralised control
- Glasnost = openness in economics and politics to allow for progress
- 1986, state censorship was relaxed and the media revealed the extent of corruption and failures of the government to the public
- Political change
- 1987, free local elections allowed and new political parties - Democratic Union - emerged
- New private industries did not all prove effective
- economic problems continued and there was widespread economic uncertainty that lead to job losses
- 1989, free elections for new Congress of People's Deputies
- Gorbachev had gotten rid of Article, which had guaranteed the communists supreme power
- Outside political leaders - Yeltsin - took power and had ousted Gorbachev by 1991
- Gorbachev had gotten rid of Article, which had guaranteed the communists supreme power
- Impact of Change
- Eastern Europe and states within the USSR broke away and distanced themselves from communism
- Gorbachev had stopped supporting unpopular communist regimes with military force
- Integral changes in the USSR lead to a new détente and the collapse of themselves without change being dictated by Western pressure
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