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Glasnost

Glasnost. Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev became the General-Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985 following the death of Konstantin Chernenko Gorbachev was the 4 th Soviet leader in 3 years. © Bettmann/CORBIS. Openness.

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Glasnost

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  1. Glasnost

  2. Mikhail Gorbachev • Mikhail Gorbachev became the General-Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985 following the death of Konstantin Chernenko • Gorbachev was the 4th Soviet leader in 3 years © Bettmann/CORBIS

  3. Openness • Gorbachev introduced the reforms glasnost (Openness) and perestroika (Restructuring) • The purpose of glasnost was to open up Soviet society to debate and to give more freedoms to the people. © Reuters/CORBIS

  4. Unintended Consequences • Critics of Gorbachev’s policies were elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies in 1989. • Criticism of the Soviet war in Afghanistan increased. © Jacques Langevin/CORBIS

  5. Civil Unrest • Relaxation of censorship led to the Communist Party losing it’s grip on the Media. • Nationalism in the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) led to Soviet Republics asserting their independence. © Peter Turnley/CORBIS

  6. Improved relations with the United States © Bettmann/CORBIS

  7. End of the Cold War © Pascal Le Segretain/CORBIS SYGMA

  8. Failed Coup Attempt • Hard line Communists who were fed up with the reforms, placed President Gorbachev under house arrest on August 19, 1991 in an attempt to save the Communist system. • Protesters led by RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin demanded that Gorbachev be returned to power. © Peter Turnley/CORBIS

  9. Collapse of the USSR • By December 1991 all of the Soviet Republics had declared their independence. • On December 25, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President and the USSR passed into history. • Boris Yeltsin became President of the newly independent Russian Federation © Alain Nogues/CORBIS

  10. The End

  11. Bibliography • Gorbachev, Mikhail. Memoirs. Doubleday, 1996. • Matlock, Jack. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. Random House, 2004. • "History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)." Wikipedia. 04 April 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281985-1991%29 • “Glasnost.” Wikipedia. 04 April 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost • “Perestroika and Glasnost.” Soviet History. 04 April 2006. http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?action=L2

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