Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Communism

Explain how Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the Soviet Union and paved the way for the end of Communism.

-->Mikhail Gorbachev was a Russian politician. He was one of the last leaders of the Soviet Union, who served from 1985 until the collapse of 1991. His supporters praised his youth, energy, and political skills that they admired. He was one of the youngest leader of the Soviet Union, since Stalin. He didn't need to follow other people ideas, he just came up with new ones that were more better and useful.
He opened up the Soviet Union and paved the way to end communism by opening the soviets citizens to help them out in their society. Due to this he started a thing called Glasnost that was an opening to help his citizens and make them feel comfortable with him as a leader, and to be not afraid of any losses. However, he had many ideas that he created another was called Perestroika.perestroika was an idea on economic restructuring throughout the Soviet Union. As Gorbachev made new reforms communism started to get weaker and weaker. His main idea was to make communism more efficient and a productive development. Many changes came along the years where he finally ended communism and dramatically living to a new reform called capitalism where many things changed and where not the same.


Define Glasnost

-->The declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

Define Peristrokia

-->The restructuring of the Soviet economy and bureaucracy that began in the mid 1980s.