POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Radical Change, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika
15 Apr 2013
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Different layers of identity have emerged in moscow and throughout russia. The course of the transition was not inevitable, the course of development, degree of success, and limitations, were based on the idea that most of the major leaders (gorbachev, Elstin, putin) played a crucial role in determining the course of events and the outcomes of the transition process. What existed in the 1990s was not inevitable or predetermined. Gorbachev saw perestroika as a major factor in moving the country forward. Gorbachev also reintroduced private entrepreneurial system, also scrapped the contract between the state and the work force. When opposition from both sides emerged to what were deemed to be radical changed. Gorbachev responded to this by making the changes faster than he had originally intended do. By 1986/87 recognizes the need to make perestroika work better. Introduces glasnost as an attempt to generate support from the lower levels of society.
