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LEADERS
LEADERS
___________ DOCTRINE
Soviet Leaders
END OF COMMUNISM
GORBACHEV’S PROBLEMS
• 1. Poor economy inherited from Brezhnev• 2. Corruption• 3. Excessive military spending• 4. Unwinnable war in Afghanistan
GORBACHEV’S PROGRAMS
• 1. Glasnost – “openness” freedom of expression”Result: Lots of criticism of the Communist govt.• 2. Perestroika – economic reform• Result: Didn’t work• 3. Democratizatsya - democratization• Result: New Constitution makes government separate
from Communist Party; more choice in elections• 4. Abandonment of Brezhnev Doctrine• Result: Eastern European satellites reject communism.
FALL OF COMMUNISM
• 1. Gorbachev abandons Brezhnev Doctrine• 2. Election in Poland; Solidarity wins all seats it runs for;
people reject Communism.• 3. Hungary opens borders, takes down “iron curtain”• 4. East Germans flee to Hungary; Berlin Wall opened• 5. Czechoslovakia has “Velvet Revolution”• 6. Romania’s dictator violently overthrown • 7. “Demokratzatsiya” in Soviet Union• 7. August Coup in 1991 discredits Gorbachev; boosts
reformer Yeltsin• 8. Soviet Union dissolves; Christmas, 1991.