Mikhail Gorbschev and the collapse of communism

Glasnost: "means openness." It was a policy that brought changes to the government and the way of life those living in the Soviet.

Perestroika: "means economic restructuring" Obviously brought about changes in the economics for Soviet's.


When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power ikn sule over the soviets, the first thing he did was create reforms that favored as he calls it "openness" in the community. Under the policies known as Glasnost and Perestroika, the community in the Soviet Union changed for what the people thought was the better. There were better oppertunities for the people of the Soviet Union . Gorbachev believed that with the addition of these polices, that the Communist party whould eventually ''loosen its grip" on the Soviet society. After the policies were issued, Gorbachev created the third policy called demorcratization, which allowed the people to chose there own candidates for election rather than choose from the selection of the communist party. Lastly to relieve the stress of communim, Gorbachev changed the way the Soviet's traded with other countries. He did this by creating the "new thinking"policy which allowed the Soviets to come to an agreement with other countries in which no nuclear war would break lose.