Let’s Get To Know the Crucial Leaders Involved…
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DESCRIPTIຫໍສະໝຸດ Na communist reformer was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. His major reforms were glasnost, perestroika and democratization. These reforms allowed the problems of the USSR to be uncovered and become public knowledge. Emerged as the dominant leader in the 1970’s. { right before Gorbachev}. He was determined to keep Eastern Europe in Communist hands and was uninterested in reform. Under his rule, the party officials were living large, while average Russians fought just to make ends meet. When elected in 1980, the relations with the Soviets got even worse as he referred to them as an “evil empire”. He began a military buildup, which stimulated a new arms race. {weaponry} By providing military aid to proSoviet regimes in Afghanistan, he thought he would force them to waste their resources on a foreign war. President of the Russian republic, and new commander in chief of Russia after collapse of the Soviet Union. He vowed to transform Russia’s socialist economy into a free market. Elected President in 2000. He was a former officer of the secret police and was widely seen as someone who wanted to keep a tight reign on government power.
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Causes and Consequences
By Andrea Lopez, John Amalfitano, Nicole Conejo, & Yesenia Santadrea
BORGES STYLE NOTES!
Before We Begin…
Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
U.S.A.
Boris Yeltsin
Russia
Vladimir Putin
Russia
Review of Key Terms
• Nationalism - devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism. • Republic – a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. • Democracy - government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. • Communism – where no government exists and the means of production are owned and operated by all people as one equal class. • Socialism – where the means of production are owned and run by the government; non profit driven • Capitalism - the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development and is based on the principle of individual rights; profit driven
Now It’s Time To Start…
POST COLLAPSE
What’s been going on?
Soviets Under Stress
• Between 1964 and 1982, drastic change in the Soviet Union was highly unlikely. So, what the happened to create such a rapid turnaround?