Question by em.four: Who dismantled the Soviet communist party ?
Who dismantled the Soviet communist party and established free market reforms?
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Answer by Ruby Slippers
Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Georgescu Rodin says
Boris Yeltsin
Ethan says
The party it self was never dismantled and still exists but the person who did away with the Soviet Union was Mikhail Gorbachev and many people in Russia still hate him for it
Shanks says
Mikhail Gorbachev he made a friendship with US president Ronald Reagan.
Brian P says
Ronald Reagan was the driving force behind the Soviet leadership changing it's ways. Gorbachev only did what he did because RR forced his hand. The commies spent so much money trying to keep up with the "star wars"program that the country went broke and changes were necessary.
Distant Traveler says
The communist party was not dismantled. It still exists. However Gorbachav was instrumental in converting the economic system from one of central planning to capitalism.
Kal-El says
After Brezhnev's death (1982) and those of two short-lived successors, Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary (1985) ushering in a period of reform characterized by glasnost, or openness, and perestroika, or restructuring. The reforms increasingly destabilized the governing system, however, eliciting demands for ever more far-reaching reforms.
In 1991 hardline party and military leaders attempted a coup to halt the process. Until then the CPSU had been organized to parallel the territorial hierarchy of government administration and all significant institutions, including the press and armed forces, thereby effectively controlling all policy. It was for this reason that all political activity in public institutions was banned in 1991, preparatory to dissolving the party, which was incriminated in the coup attempt. The party was banned by Russian President Boris Yeltsin late in 1991, and all its property seized. Subsequently, the Soviet Union itself disintegrated.
By 1992, however, the new Communist Party of Russia had been legally established, and several other descendent parties remain politically important in Russia and some of the other nations that emerged from the former Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Russia, the largest and most well-financed of the new parties, won the largest bloc of seats in the 1995 parliamentary elections, and in the first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election, Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov received almost as many votes as Yeltsin. Although the party again won the largest percentage of the vote in the 1999 parliamentary elections, the combined vote of the progovernment parties was greater. In what was seen as a pragmatic alliance, the parties supporting with President Putin joined in coalition with the Communists in the Duma, but in Apr., 2002, that alliance collapsed, and most Communist party members were stripped of their leadership positions in the Duma. Meanwhile, in 2000, Putin won the presidency in the first round, while Zyuganov was a distant second. The parliamentary elections of 2003 were a setback for the party, which polled only 12.6% of the vote, and the party's candidate in the 2004 presidential elections won just 13.7%.