The Collapse of Communism

Communism started to collapse in Eastern Europe around the 1980s, this was because people started to reject communism, they were tired of it and the rules that they had to obey. Most people rejecting communism the Soviet Union broke up and were able to bring back the Western and Eastern side of Germany. Many countries were finished with Communism and converted into a democratic country. Communism also collapsed in the USSR, many people were being rebellions and not following the orders and the USSR government couldn't stop them anymore. Nothing went right anymore for the communist countries and just stopped being communist. In 1991 the Soviet leaders were no more and overtrown by their own countries. With the new leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev communism was gone from their countries and people had the right to say what they wanted. With this collapse of communism it doesnt mean there are no more countries with communism, there still like China, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. These countries still run with a communism government but lowered the control of the state econmomy.

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev found a way to end communism, by this people just loved the way how he knew his way in politics and yet was so young for his age. He knew his way through politics and knew what was right from wrong and still didn't like or accept communism. By the time he was 54 he was voted as Soviet leader. In his times Joesph Stalin was still going on about communism, nobody was suppose to go against him or if they did they were put in jail or killed. Once Mikhail Gorbachev became the new leader he wanted to finish the whole communism and wanted to give his people the right they deserve. Mikhail accepted new ideas from the people on how to change the society to make it better for them. With communism, there were suppose to be no economic problems because everyone was paid the same and equally; even with this nobody liked the idea. Now that Mikhail changed that the people were now able to complain about the problems and what they would want to change. He brought the things that were banned from the society before and brought them back into the society. He took innocent people out of jail, released books that were banned and opened churches so that the people could follow their religion. This is how Mikhail Gorbachev paved the way for the end of Communism.

A policy that Mikhail Gorbachev had created is the Glasnost. Glasnost which means openness which allowed the people from the Soviet Union say what they need to say. What the citizens would have said were to improve the society. Peristrokia allowed people to open up their own bussniess and gave the local managers more control over their factories and farms. Gorbachev wanted the people to be happy and to give them thier fair rights.