POL 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: De-Stalinization, Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost
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Older gures of the ussr begin to die > generational turnover in leadership & represented in the. Gure of gorbachev: he becomes the chairmen of the party & president of ussr, pg 56 [generational not election] Make a socialist country compatible with democracy. Agricultural reform > must reach quota & can sell any more it made. Gave oil re neries the ability to sell to international nations & could keep the money and invest it back into their industry/system and not have. Orient it more to democracy and open markets. For the rst couple of years [85-87] it was more of a slogan, rather than an actual movement because they did not want to destroy socialism in the process of change: problem: Scale of the reform is not bigger enough > must throw out socialism & they were not willing to do that. People in their everyday lives did not see economic improvements despite reforms.
