POL359Y1 Lecture Notes - Sinatra Doctrine, Non-Aligned Movement, Charter 77
Document Summary
Policy allowed people to be able to speak mind this unraveled the system. Goal is to retain the primacy of the party (cpsu) in soviet society. Chreshnev doctrine ? we reserve right to intervene in your affairs that threatens the soviet power. Gorbichov didn"t like central euro leaders bc they were all old stalinists. Message goes over badly in germany, hungary, poland. Unleashing of this reform agenda unravels europe. Systems were completely morally rotten- they couldn"t develop to the next stage of development. Poland is the most important of the countries in the bloc- they name the polish pope in the 80"s. Emergence of the first opposition group- makes them a vision of what could be possible in ussr. Charter 77- group of intellectuals in czech. Hungary: start to renovate themselves with gorbichov message dissident community. They were able to borrow a lot of money from western institutions bc they were possible allies. Albania: neither non-aligned or member of bloc.
