HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nikita Khrushchev, Virgin Lands Campaign, Lavrentiy Beria
15 Mar 2016
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Collapse of communism that gave momentum to the world in which we live. It was part of a large structural command and it was not just an event in the year. Alienated: it was roten within and people have been alienated from the system and it couldn"t survive; Fiscal insolvency: inance and they couldn"t manufacture most of things at home. As a result of this they were forced to borrow money and led to debt trap. Gorbachev"s agency: he allowed it to collapse and other people. Losers of the cold war: the americans believe that they beat the communist. Dissident movement: how ordinary people took acion and confronted the regime and paricipated in the popular revoluion against the man. Religion was a threat; organized religion is bad. Idealisic society; beter society and vision: became an empty ritual by the 1980s. Economic: state planning but it couldn"t compete with systems of collaboraions in producion.
