PSCI 256 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch 7-8: Glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev
3 Mar 2017
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Perestroika and the end of party rule p. 89 the stability of the brezhnev system was real enough as long as certain key props remained in place. Gorbachev strategy - perestroika - policies put forward by the gorb. Leadership during the period from the xxviith party congress in 1986 until the end of 1989, policies intended to produce major changes in the economic and political system. Reform communist party, be accounted to elected bodies. Glastnost - encouraging a greater openness of discussion. He brought new energetic individual into the politburo and secretariat. There was a call for a strong leadership . New-found freedoms to the political leadership, where politics and press went together. Authority to the congress of people"s deputies of the su, then to the republican soviets/ parliaments (authority not power) By 1991 government was unable to function at all (lost resources coercion and economic, media) Gorbachev came up with executive presidency with presidential council.
