CPO 3633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Baltic States, Leninism, Market Socialism
23 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Gorbachev"s policies, four cornerstones, perestroika- restructuring , glasnost- openness , democratization, new thinking, chernobyl, 25 april 1986, 2000, kursk submarine (reminiscent of chernobyl, it took weeks to evacuate chernobyl. Deaths predicted to be 300 but long term 1000: soviet government denied it until it was undeniable, showed how they sucked at communication. G wanted a slow and steady moved towards socialism: he ends up a deputy minister and 1st president of russia. 1989 elections to the soviet cpd: far from democratic, 750 reserved seats, non-party success, 85% were hard line party officials, not really because the party was falling apart, vague or apathetic. You belong because everyone wanted to belong: return of yeltsin, gorbachev was not elected he took a reserved party seat. 1989 revolutions in eastern europe: solidarity in poland, hungarian people"s republic becomes the republic of hungary, a multi party democracy with free elections, nov. 9 1989- berlin wall goes down.
