Perestroika, 1987
•Gorbachev published a book with this title, which means “restructuring” it included:
•Denouncing Stalin
•Notion of one ideology one party
•Admitted that Hungary, 1956 and Czechoslovakia, 1968 were mistakes
•That he wanted to return to détente
•He wanted reform
•Denouncing Stalin
•Notion of one ideology one party
•Admitted that Hungary, 1956 and Czechoslovakia, 1968 were mistakes
•That he wanted to return to détente
•He wanted reform
Glasnost
•The term was interpreted in the west as “openness”
•This policy shocked both his people and the west
•For the first time since the Tsars a leader encouraged open debate about the country
•The results were:
•Less censorship
•A change of view of Soviet history
•Andrei Sakharov was freed from exile (developed the hydrogen bomb in Russia)
•Stalin was denounced
•Gorbachev announced socialism still hadn’t arrived
•This policy shocked both his people and the west
•For the first time since the Tsars a leader encouraged open debate about the country
•The results were:
•Less censorship
•A change of view of Soviet history
•Andrei Sakharov was freed from exile (developed the hydrogen bomb in Russia)
•Stalin was denounced
•Gorbachev announced socialism still hadn’t arrived