the Collapse of communism

Communism was the belief that everyone should be equal and the goverment should own everything. Commuinism was basically in russia and parts of germany that was owned by russia. In the 1980's, russia broke down the berlin wall in Germany seperating the West germany and East germany. This allowed germany to be its own full country again. this was also called the lifting of the iron curtain.

This was all done because of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms for Russia making it from totalitarian communism to democratic free capitalism. In 1991, the soviet union collapsed and was renaimed russia.

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev is the president of Russia. He was the youngest president at age 54. Mikhail decided that since the russia was a totalitarian state, and nothing was getting done, he thought that he should open up russia more so that free fresh new ideas will come and make Russia more economic and new with social reforms. This was called the "Glasnost". This was to promote Openess in Russia.

In 1985, Gorbachev decided to make something new called "Peristrokia". This was to make economic reforms. Local managers gained full rights to their farms and property and people were allowed to own privately owned small buisnesses.