GORBACHEV AND REFORM GORBACHEV AND REFORM THE END
GORBACHEV AND REFORM
GORBACHEV AND REFORM THE END OF BREZHNEV Ø Brezhnev’s death long anticipated § Increasingly infirm & senile § Died Nov. 10, 1982
GORBACHEV AND REFORM INTERREGNUM Ø Succeeded by IURII ANDROVPOV, 1982 § Former head of KGB § Attempted limited reform § But died after only 15 months in office
GORBACHEV AND REFORM INTERREGNUM Ø Next leader = KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO, 1984 § Brezhnev protégé § Even older & sicker than Andropov § In absence, MIKHAIL GORBACHEV took on many leadership duties
GORBACHEV AND REFORM USSR UNDER GORBACHEV (1985 -1991) Ø A New Leadership Style § Young, confident, charismatic § Good on TV § Very popular in West
GORBACHEV AND REFORM USSR UNDER GORBACHEV (1985 -1991) Ø First Reforms: The Economy § Tightened labor discipline § Tried to combat poor quality & corruption § Restricted sale of vodka
GORBACHEV AND REFORM USSR UNDER GORBACHEV (1985 -1991) Ø GLASNOST § New “openness” § Meant to bolster economic reforms § Challenged official secrecy & Party monopoly Chernobyl disaster Andrei Sakharov
GORBACHEV AND REFORM USSR UNDER GORBACHEV (1985 -1991) Ø PERESTROIKA § “Restructuring” § Some elements of market economy § Some measure of democracy
GORBACHEV AND REFORM SOVIET CULTURE Ø Effects of Glasnost’ § Open discussion of everything § End of dissident repression § Reassessment of history § End of Party interference with art & literature § Publication of previously banned books
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