L97 IAS 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Foreign Corporation, Infant Mortality, Yuri Andropov

• School: WUSTL
• Department: International And Area Studies
• Course: L97 IAS 3680
• Professor: Professor Knapp

Document Summary

The thaw in the cold war: gorbachev, glasnot, and perestroika, 1985-88. Purpose: to chart the rise of gorbachev and identify the policies he developed to combat the economic crisis at home. Andropov died in 1984 of poor health and was replaced by. His death marked the death of soviet leaders who were raised under stalin and who were obsessed with security and control, building the ussr into an empire of strength. Waiting in the wings was a new generation with new ideas for the soviet future, one of whom was mikhail gorbachev. Became general secretary of the ussr on march 5th 1985 and held the position until the soviet union ceased to exist in december 1991. Realized as minister of the agriculture department that collectivization (stalin"s idea) did not work economically or politically. This gave him a reformist attitude, he knew the system was broken and needed change. Conditions of the soviet union by 1985.