TRN410H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Market (Place), Glasnost, Nikita Khrushchev
30 Apr 2016
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In contrast to su in 1980s, downward trajectory, stagnating economically, overstretched mili- tarily and imperially, shedding its empire. The greatest transformation of people being lifted out of poverty 10% a year until 2000. Emergence of world major power, superpower certainly economic. Communist orthodoxy undermining of the revolution. More radical steps to move towards arms controls initiations and reductions. Had to deal with a lot of pressures. More successful in maintaining his influence and power than gorbachev. Modernization of china: managed with an iron fist within a velvet glove. Personality that enamoured him to western leaders. Concerns about dissidents and chinese military presence in tibet. Less repressive than mao"s though significant number of political prisoners but ignored by the. China was not seen as an imperial power like the ussr was to the americans. It was a regional imperial power and not a threat to the us. Beijing and moscow decide to patch up differences 1986-89.
