It weakened the Soviet economy, affecting the Soviet Union's ability to support military commitments around the world.
It weakened the Soviet economy, affecting the Soviet Union's ability to support military commitments around the world.
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Perestroika refers to the major restructuring of both the political and economic control of the Soviet Union, which started in the late 1980's, after Mikhail Gorbachev took the office of the General Secretary of the Communist Party. It is a common belief that Perestroika led to the fall of communism within Russia and Eastern Europe, and also brought an end to the Cold War.
He offered citizens more personal freedoms, resulting in widespread protests that weakened communist countries.
Perestroika means restructuring. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev used this term to state that the existing Soviet government was going to be restructured to move away from the totalitarian style government created by Lenin, Stalin and others that followed them. That, plus "glasnost" or "openness", signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
Perestroika means restructuring. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev used this term to state that the existing Soviet government was going to be restructured to move away from the totalitarian style government created by Lenin, Stalin and others that followed them. That, plus "glasnost" or "openness", signaled the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev is usually credited with helping to end the cold war.
Stalin never reversed the Cold War. He began it and continued it to his death in 1953. Mikhail Gorbachev began reversing the Cold War attitude with the policies of "perestroika" (restructuring) and "glasnost" (openness). These were actually polices that affected the internal operations of the USSR in a direct way. This then had the indirect result of reducing Cold War tensions and then to the ultimate dissolution of the Soviet Union itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev did not take down any physical wall. However, he played a significant role in the dismantling of the symbolic Berlin Wall, which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War. Gorbachev's policies of Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) allowed for a more open political climate, leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Were termed Glasnost and Perestroika. Glasnost refers to openness and transparency within the Soviet government as an internal National Policy. Perestroika refers to restructuring and change.
A. L. Adamishin has written: 'Human rights, perestroika, and the end of the cold war'
The Chernobyl disaster Brought about perestroika
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