| The democratization of the Communist Party was promoted through Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachevs policies of perestroika and glasnost. |
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 | The term Glasnost means openness and was the name for the social and political reforms to bestow more rights and freedoms upon the Soviet people | |
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| We had a goal to include more people in the political process through freedom expression. | |
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| the totalitarian state present since 1917 was difficult to dismantle, and when it fell apart, citizens were not accustomed to the lack of regulation and command. |
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| The outburst of information about escalating crime and crimes by the government caused panic in the people. This caused an increase in social protests in a nation used to living under the strictest government control, and went against the goals of Gorbachev. | |
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| It led to a decreased censoring of media which allowed writers and journalists to expose news of government corruption. | |
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| In the 1980s, the Soviet Union was engulfed by a multitude of problems. |
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| The country didnt have advanced technology and used inefficient factories , the customers were buying low quality products. | |
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