CPO 3633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cuban Missile Crisis, Mikhail Gorbachev, Economy Of The Soviet Union
23 Oct 2017
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World war ii: great patriotic war and they believe that they won the war. It was them that endured we only helped. Stalin"s death (1953: elite uncertainty and ambivalence, khrushchev outmaneuvers malenkow, virgin islands campaign (expansion v intensification, position as general secretary. Politics under khrushchev: de-colonization- ideological battleground, alternative to the idea of capitalism, setback, berlin wall; 1961, cuban missile crisis, 1962, virgin island"s campaign, 1963, intra party coup 1964. Gorbachev was too young (2) oldest one ever to become gs: gorbachev, march 1985, 54 years old (1) he was quite young. New generation was not there for the revolution: changes to soviet society, the role of the party itself changes. Brought on many people that were necessary to make the system work and run: censorship didn"t help them work, gorbachev"s politics, perestroika- restructuring , glasnost- openness , unprecedented information coming in from the west.
