PSCI 1024 Study Guide - Final Guide: Islamic Consultative Assembly, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Guardian Council

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 1024
• Professor: Weisband

Document Summary

The vanguard of the proletariat would lead the workers and act in their name to establish the new regime. Term used to describe the decisions making process within the party. Discussion of issues was allowed among party members until a decisions was reached. Once that had been done total acceptance of the decision was permitted and party members were expected to follow the party line. Gorbachev undertook reform through perestroika (restructuring) and glasnosts (openness). Attempt to bring life back into the system. However, it failed and the system collapsed: define perestroika and glasnost. Each successor republic was left to deal with the problems left from the communist era. The creation of a new national identity, the privatization of the economy and the establishment of a democratic political system: describe the post soviet culture. State was faced with the choice of political structures and the creation on habits of leadership and decision making that would operate in these structures.