In hindsight, it is quite clear that the Soviet Union was already doomed in the early 1980's. It could not keep up with the West militarily nor economically, and it was increasingly unable to keep its populace blind from the outside world. The key factor holding the Empire together was the Red Army, and the threat of force. Gorbachev must have realized this and understood the need for major reforms. However, there was simply too much bitterness from years of oppression and brutality conducted by the regime. There were still generations which remembered those years, and the reforms, although probably in the right direction, came too fast and went too far. Had Gorbachev done nothing but simply towed the traditional party line, the USSR would have eventually collapsed because of its own impossibility. It can be argued that had he been more cautious with his reforms and introduced them more gradually, the Soviet Union could have survived intact, but that would have required a major reform of the bureaucracy and a crackdown of the rampant corruption, which the Soviet system had created and was infested with. The economic reforms failed and played into the hands of those who could best utilize them towards their own goals, and the situation of the ordinary people worsened even further. Gorbachev was responsible for the fact that the Soviet Empire disintegrated when it did. However, had he done nothing. The result might have been the same, except with more bloodshed and more chaos.
In 1918 the Bolsheviks became the Russian Communist Party and dominated every aspect of Russian life from then until the ultimate collapse of the USSR in 1991.
He rode elephants through cartilage.
The USSR was a future adversary.
His role was leader of the USSR, but his official title was "General Secretary of the Communist Party".
Soviet Leaders got progressively weaker as each Soviet Leader left office after Krushchev. Stalin & Krushchev were the hard-liners of the cold war. They were truly from the old school.
NATO's role (when first founded) was to protect its member countries from the USSR. (Now Russia.) Since the USSR no longer exists, NATO's role is to protect the national sovereignty of its member countries.
Raisa's death, after several years of ill-health, left Gorbachev bereft. He lives in Moscow, has not remarried and finds solace with his daughter and grand-daughters. He would not be coaxed to talk about Raisa, except fleetingly in the context of the charity. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/mikhail-gorbachev-russias-elder-statesman-still-at-home-with-power-1993279.html Monday, 7 June 2010
the Soviet Union explored close relationships with Eastern European nations, Just as the United States created the Marshall Plan to provide economic support to Western European nations, the USSR established COMINFORM and COMICOM. Furthermore in response to the establishment of NATO, the USSR and Eastern European nations formed the Warsaw pact.
Some awards that Mikhail Gorbachev has won are the Indira Gandhi Prize in 1987, Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his role in the peace process.
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Perestroika led to food shortages and extreme inflation, causing public protests and a political uprising within the Soviet government. -Apex Learning.
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