POLI 359 Lecture Notes - Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping, Proletariat
17 Sep 2013
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General secretary of the communist party of the soviet union. Soviet union is in crisis political legitimacy crisis and economy: time to do something drastic. Perestroika (economic system, political bureaucratic system, police state party state), democratizatsiia (effort to restructure political domain for democratizing. Refers to those states that are apart of the eastern/central block of europe. Been subsidizing them to keep them within the soviet block and loyal. Tells comrades in eastern europe that you can reform system in their own way. No matter what happens here, we aren"t coming to comrades defense if they don"t try to rectify their governments and go through reform. Legitimize invasion that happened in the first place. Doctrine soviet union used to legitimize invasion into. Should anyone of the soviet unions allies be under threat of reactionary subversion from within or outside, the soviet.
