POLI 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Warsaw Pact, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wojciech
12 Mar 2017
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Poli 212: chapter 11 notes: the legacy of communism in central and eastern europe: until 1989, the countries of central and eastern europe belonged as satellite countries to the soviet bloc. Intellectual base was marxism: after wwii, the soviet union established brutal rule over the countries of central and. No real internal changes would ever occur in communist totalitarian regimes: 2. Increased contact with the west would cause slow, gradual changes in: spring movement of 1968 in czechoslovakia. In the soviet union, leonid brezhnev was still in power, threatening intervention if the. Polish communists were not tough enough: when gorbachev came to power in moscow in 1985, the situation began to change, political prisoners were released in 1986, the communist government made some timid steps to liberalize the economy in. June 4, 1989 election triumph for solidarity: formal power was in hands of communists but had to share power with the.
