HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Eurocommunism, Helmut Kohl, Willy Brandt
Document Summary
Street fighting man rolling stones, beggear"s banquet, 1968. Took a more liberal approach to economics in response to economic recession: helmut kohl, the european states began to move ideologically from the. Centre to the right then the far right: common practice of: cutting gov"t spending, neoliberal policy. 1981, repress solidarity, which was the main threat. Solidarity troops surpressed the strikes that broke out and imposed marshall law, which lasted until 83 but he still couldn"t eradicate this opposition. Beznev and his cronies wanted it (old men) they refused younger generations a chance to join the party: general disillusionment among soviet society esp young ppl the soviet union never delivered on its promises. Glasnost" openness in russian, which was intended to provide greater freedom of speech and transparency of gov"t. The collapse of the soviet union: chernobyl, boris yeltsin, ppl began to lose faith that the soviet gov;t could get better, the economy practially stopped functioning and shortages of.
