Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the Soviet Union and paved the way for the end of Communism.the people that had Communism now liked the way he knew his way in politics and yet was so young for his age and were interested in their youth and energy and political skills he was the youngest ruler since Joseph Stalin. He wanted to give new ideas and by By the time he was 54 he was voted as Soviet leader. He didn't want to be exactly like Joseph Stalin but he wanted to give new ideas. He wanted to encourage the citizens to give him new ways of improving their society. Because of this, many new changes were made. He took innocent people out of jail, released books that were banned and opened churches so that the people could follow their religion.he did many great things and by that people started liking him and they way his ideas were.
he mad a policy that was called Galsnost. "Glasnost" meant that openness like that allowed the people to say what ever they want that were in the soviet union. This mad a lot of change to society. Some goodand even some of it bad. The chain of complaints caused him to make a new policy that was called the Peristrokia which was the idea of economic reconstructing.

The Collapse of Communism

Communism collapse in Eastern Europe and the USSR because the people were getting tired od communism and didn't want it anymore. They didn't like their rules so they didn't want to obey them anymore. So because of the people that didn't want communism anymore it started to collapse and it broke the soviet union apart so then later on the western and eastern side together again. Even the USSR broke apart because many of the people rebelled against them to a point where the government couldn't control the people anymore.The people even teared down the Berlin wall because it was built to prevent people in the east side of Germany to escape communism so like the people didn't want communism they teared it down. In the 1991 the soviet leaders were no longer more and they were kicked out by their own countries.Even Party officials were killed for personal gain, weakening the party.It changed the world because they are barley any communism countries expect for Cuba etc. Also because it was a huge relief to some people.