POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mikhail Gorbachev, Edward Snowden, Radiation Zone
Document Summary
Unleashed forces within soviet union that soviet union communist party simply could not contain. Citizens don"t believe in the myths that the soviet union produced to justify its existence. Stagnation of the domestic economy produced by the commitments that the soviet union has made. Between us and soviet union with the announcement by the reagan administration that they"d pursue a missile shield, forcing the soviet union to ramp up its military spending at the expense of domestic spending. Had to be cleaned up, at first the soviets tried to deny it, but the. Europeans found out, the only way to clean it up was to put the members of the military into the radiation zone. Continuing presence of enormous nuclear arsenals in russia and the us. Ideology: china, cuba, vietnam, venezuela, and the continuing appeal of socialism. The collapse of the soviet union was considered by many was a triumph of democracy and markets.
