HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lavrentiy Beria, Georgy Malenkov, Mikhail Gorbachev
2 Dec 2017
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Today we conduct an autopsy of a deceased and discredited system: communism. To those living in 1989, it seemed as if they were living in a moment of history that was changing everything they knew about the world being separated into east and. West and the beginning of a world without divisions. Soon it appeared that despite the collapse of communism and the collapse of the. Soviet union created a lot of instability, there were new evils that appeared. This was a major event in history, a turning point. With the collapse of the soviet system, the idea that communism was an equal alternative to capitalism disappeared. When trying to understand the fall of communism, it"s important to look at the longer view. Communism had been rotting behind the iron curtain ever since stalin died. Which made it possible when gorbachev came for the system to collapse.
