Gorbachev's Relationship During The Cold War

During the cold war the Soviet Union played a big part. When Stalin was still president and Stalin’s ‘legacy’ which were to remain Soviet Union an authoritarian, one-party state and economically it was focused on producing military hardware rather than housing, transport, food, consumers goods and health care. Mikhail Gorbachev reported to have said ‘We can’t go on living like this,’ on his behalf of being the youngest first university-educated General Secretary leader to the Politburo. Gorbachev was responsible for the collapse of the soviet system, because of Gorbachev introduction of two key ideas, Gorbachev and Reagan’s relationship during the cold war, and Gorbachev keeping the Soviet Union relations with the United States.
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introduction of his two key reforming ideas which were perestroika and glasnost were two key ideas that represented a change in politics in the Soviet Union. Perestroika were to restructure the economy and glasnost to be openness was the principle of every area of the regime to public scrutiny. These two key ideas involved greater ‘democratization,’ with more people involved in the Communist party and in political debates. Through these two strategies, Gorbachev intended to make Soviet Union system more productive and responsive, but in order to keep his process he realized the only way was to reduction in military spending.
After Gorbachev reduction in military spending, Gorbachev knew that if his ideas were going to work, then Gorbachev could not rise to the challenge of matching Reagan’s SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) system. Gorbachev announced his plans to withdraw from Afghanistan and he pulled back soviet aid to its ‘allies’ in the developing world. After settling down with Reagan about arms control, and Reagan later confessed he had no longer believed in the ‘evil empire.’ Gorbachev control of government people grew tired of rationing, shortages, and endless scarce goods within his market economy.
Although, Gorbachev’s introduction of two key ideas, and Gorbachev and Reagan’s relationship during the cold war caused many problems in the short run.

Gorbachev wanted to manage keeping the Soviet Union relations with the United States. Gorbachev believed the only way to better the Soviet economy were to keep good relations with with the rest of the world, especially the United States. This caused Gorbachev to reduced the Soviet military in the Warsaw Pact nations of the Eastern European. This also caused Eastern European to crumble down in a few months. Gorbachev made it clear that the Brezhnev doctrine which were affirming the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the affairs of Communist countries to strengthen Communism would not be applied with the satellite states. The process by which the Soviet Union collapsed began and Gorbachev policies failed to bring improvement in the country’s economic situation meant that he became unpopular.
In conclusion, Gorbachev was responsible for the collapse of the soviet system, because of Gorbachev introduction of two key ideas, Gorbachev and Reagan’s relationship during the cold war, and Gorbachev keeping the Soviet Union relations with the United States. The collapse of the Soviet Union had a huge impact on international politics as well as the economic situation of countries that have been dependent on the Soviet Union for

aid.