Mikhail Gorbachev and The Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorachev was a young leader to the old and conservative Soviet Union. His new ideas and vision as opposed to the old views of Stalin were considered to be a way out of their situation. He introduced a policy of glasnost which was a policy of openness or freedom of speech. Under the old government there was no right to speak. With the thoughts of his people in his mind he had passed the policy of perestroika which gave people to own and open small private businesses. This was the plan of Econmical Reconstruction or like a communist industrial revolution. Gorachev unknowingly opened the door to the collapse of communism. With this policy Gorachev also was able to lossen the elections and lost many satellite states.