Perestroika and the Glasnost
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
With some time in office Gorbachev decided that there needed to be reform in the Soviet Union, because of this he had written his book Perestroika which ment restructuring. Through the reforms found in the book came freedom of speech which allowed the Soviets to voice their concerns about the state. Through this Stalinism was seen as a dark period in history.