HIST 202A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Samizdat, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Boris Yeltsin
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Imre nagy had proposed to democratize hungary. When hungary had wanted to leave the warsaw pact, the soviets were worried that the other east bloc countries would follow. Moved in on budapest and crushed the revolution. Khrushchev"s policies towards the west was unsuccessful and led to the allies reaffirming their unity, leading to him backing down. West berlin was blocked off with the berlin wall. Khrushchev de-stalinized soviet foreign policy and said that (cid:518)peaceful coexistence(cid:519) with capitalism was possible. De-stalinization had triggered rebellions, mostly in poland, where a new government. Gorbachev realized that the u. s. s. r was behind on the world and losing its power. Tried to fix the soviet system with fundamental reforms and wanted to improve conditions for citizens. [perestroika was economic restructuring and reform implemented by premier. Mikhail gorbachev in the soviet union in 1985] Promoted campaign for openness with government and media. Gorbachev then sought to heal relations with the u. s.
