POL 607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: State Capitalism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Al-Qaeda
17 May 2016
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Cold war = 1945-1990: bipolar, constant competition for advantage, allies, etc, americans nato, military standoff, lots of spying, arms race, us was largest economy in the world and benefited greatly from wwii. One explanation: all sorts of agitation in europe about communist rule. Movement called solidarity in poland workers getting antsy about living under communist power. Soviet union put a new leader in place final leader of communist. Plan was to have him make communism work better. Change economic system) and grasnost (freedom people could speak out and criticize more, western culture more widely available) But once you start changing it"s hard to keep things under control especially because change and freedom snowballed. The communist party of the su just gave up. Star wars = not the movie obviously look at chst notes. Greater prosperity, productivity, etc. by following capitalist principles.
