the USSR and Europe between 1985-1990

Considered a key figure in the "liberalization and subsequent disintegration of Soviet and Eastern European Communism" , Mikhail Gorbachev had definitely a substantial impact on the status of the USSR and Europe during his time as the last leader of the USSR. However, it would seem that much of his contributions are accidental rather than planned actions. The fact that he was trying to actually renew the vigor of the Soviet Union when he destroyed it is seemingly of only a coincidental factor. His policies were intended to help the Soviet Union, and in increasing consternation, he had seen it hinder the USSR until the point of breakup.

It is definitely Gorbachev's policies, both foreign and ones that enacted in the USSR which were the major actions taken by him, and therefore was his major impact on Europe and the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union, where the majority of his efforts lay, he exercised his power in various forms. One of his major concerns was political reform. In the communistic system, he reformed the election process. The constitution was amended to provide that, elections of new 2250 member Congress of Peoples Deputies, whic

Throughout Eastern Europe, anti-Soviet sentiment was a strong force. In Poland, which has been under Soviet rule Ever since the 1940's, revolts have started to spread. In 1988 in Poland, the popular movement, Solidarity, demanded of the government talks on the most basic of day to day issues . While there were no major confrontations, street demonstrations and some Polish workers actually didn't join in the strike, it was enough to call in a visit from Gorbachev. Gorbachev visited in July of 1988, and contrary to what he had intended to do, which was reassure the Polish people, instead he stirred the fires of rebellion even higher. The Polish people had expected of him to grant them help in bringing fragments of democracy into Poland, as he had done else were, in the central areas of the USSR. However, when he apparently made no attempt to do so, the Polish people felt their hopes crumble, and felt as if they had been betrayed. Many could argue as to why he hadn't made any mov!

Gorbachev, being the chairman of the most powerful country in Europe, doubtlessly had a huge impact on the rest of Europe as well. By far, his most important move in that region was to inform the countries under Soviet Domination that the USSR would no longer use force to keep the Communistic governments in power, in effect giving them independence. This caused massive changes in the region.

By 1990, severe economic crisis gripped Russia.

When Gorbachev took control, a vast majority of East Europe was under Soviet Rule. Gorbachev decided to take a path that seemed to stray more towards democracy, and therefore the Iron Rule of the Soviet fell. Some would say that he intentionally lifted the iron curtain, but from his decisions, it seems that there are two possibilities. One would be that considering the state that the Soviet Union, the puppet governments in control would have probably had little chances of staying in control very much longer, as the central structure of the Soviet Union would have been breaking up already. The second possibility is that the Soviet Union The biggest change was in Germany, where long time sufferers in Berlin could finally tear down the Berlin Wall. The Communist Regime in Germany had finally come to an end.

Other various forms of social reform was also present. During Gorbachev's era, the USSR underwent a political change like no other that came before it. Gorbachev eliminated cens

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