Russian Life & People Digest
Question by Andrew D: What Soviet leader was most responsible for the fall of communism?
A. Joseph Stalin
B. Leonid Brezhnev
C. Mikhail Gorbachev
D. Boris Yeltsin
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Answer by Juliet R
I dont think it was any of those, I believe it was Mikhail Gorbachev
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Harry O says
I believe communist system did not fail, it was never tried at all by an country. What we saw in Russia was a totalitarian form of government breaking up into several capitalist states. While China is obvously a State Capitalist.
Gorbachev opened its country to end Cold War after realizing in their secret science lab that with the modern weapons no longer anyone can win the war!
brainstorm says
C
anonymous_94 says
Mikhail Gorbachev
DeSaxe says
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev did not want to end communism, he wanted to move toward a market economy like China. Between the hard liners on one side and the liberals on the other side he lost control of power and after a coup failed by his former fraction he lost power in the USSR.
Gorbachev vision was not of a free society but of a market communist economy ran by the privileged few.
Boris Yeltsin was the first elected President of Russia. He ended communism in Russia. Although his administration was plagued with corruption and ineffectiveness his was effective enough to prevent a return of communism.
Stephen K says
Although one could argue that stalin's stance doomed communism from the start, I have to give it to gorbachev