HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Berlin Wall, Glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev
23 Feb 2017
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20th century saw the end of communism and saw the end of the cold war. Everything hit a critical point at the same time, conjunction of events happen to explain all kinds of things. At the very time soviet union needed a strong leadership and a continuity of policy. Soviet union had to generate all of their capital for investment from inside. Soviet leadership decided that all investment had to come from inside and had disasterous consequences for the economy. 1985- gorbachev came to power (was elected primier of the soviet union) Gorbachev was 54, he didn"t really go through the war like putin, they were post war leaders. He had travelled around the world and was exposed to outside ideas. He was a real change in leadership, when you have 3 people dying in a 3 year people because 4 in a row sucks.
