Question by Mark Good: If Gorbachev wanted to maintain Communism in Russia why did Glasnot and Perestroika cause the opposite?
He invented Glasnot and Perestroika right? He said they were meant to improve Soviet way of life but instead it helped the people realize that they had very few freedom and that American Democracy seemed better. So was he secretly a Capitalist then also? He just makes no sense to me really.
Answers and Views:
Answer by Totally
He didn’t want to maintain communism. Take a look at this:
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/gorbach.htm
Answer by Wave2012
You cannot maintain something you do not have.
As well as you cannot sit on two chairs at the same time.
He was not capitalist, he was hopeless idealist.
Read all the answers in the comments.
What do you think?
Satem Ponthis says
He was a traitor. That says it all
Slava T says
I believe the Soviet system was not reformable. The Soviet civilization was based on the Soviet (mainly Stalinist) interpretation of the 19th century social theory called Marxism, what ruled out any possibility for the Soviet re-adjustment to new economic and political challenges. As soon as Gorbachev removed the pillar of the Soviet coercion the whole system simply broke down.
CMV says
I think he genuinely wanted a free socialist state , but in the coup that idealism was defeated ; and the powerful ones took over the state and it’s riches for themselves .
Comrade Good Looking says
Gorbachev wanted to change the way socialism operated in the USSR, but ended up wrecking it in the process.
His ideas were simply not suited to the Soviet system.