HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Commonwealth Of Independent States Free Trade Area, Warsaw Pact, Berlin Wall
13 Sep 2016
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Growing problems in ussr the gorbachev revolution collapse of the ussr. Insists upon human rights across europe: charter 77 (1977) Era of stagnation = economics, political corruption, etc. Brezhnev dies in 1982: succeeded by andropov (1982-84, chernenko (1984-85, gorbachev (1985- ) Gorbachev"s reforms: glasnost openness/transparency freedom of speech, perestroika restructuring restructure the economy/political system. Introduction of ~democracy (multi-candidate elections, but not multi- party every candidate you can vote for was a member of the communist party: a little bit of freedom (cultural changes, fashion, music, etc. , the chernobyl disaster (april 1986) The government doesn"t say anything for 48 hours. Gorbachev told the citizens/rest of the world what was happening: gorbachev wanted to make the soviet union better, great again. Boris yeltsin (president of russia 1991-99: may 1990 boris yeltsin rises to become leader of russian soviet. Disband communist party in russia (not soviet union, just russia: december 1991 soviet union collapses. Creation of the commonwealth of independent states.
