POL SCI 140L Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Eurocommunism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Konstantin Chernenko
19 Apr 2018
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This intellectual format influenced gorbachev, who came to power in 1985. Breslauer was surprised that someone who grew in the party rose to the top after brezhnev with ideas of such radical reforms . Expected some reforms, but not so radical. Marx believes in equality : that"s why his vision is everlasting. Breslauer saw a possible basis for democracy under brezhnev and gorbachev! Brezhnev looked pretty out of shape by his last couple years, but then chernenko came and made him look energetic . Those of gorbachev"s generation had been very influenced by khrushchev"s denunciation of. Socialism was based upon a vision that you might denounce as totally unfeasible. On a state level, we haven"t seen anywhere reach a society that has abundance and equality as dictated by communism. Gorbachev believed in this vision, so said socialism can do better than this .
