Gorbachev and Perestroika

The history of the Soviet Union is complicated and fascinating. In the course of only seventy years this country has seen the development of the totally new system of state, economic growth, the growth of hopes for the 'brighter future', and then the sudden and expected by no one collapse of the whole system leading to chaos, wars, and confusion. One period is especially important in order to realize how did things finally started to …

…Considering these and other positive results of perestroika I would have to disagree with those people who say that it was a complete failure. The restructuring that took place in the Soviet Union has many dimensions - some are positive, some are negative. One-sided view which Joan E. Spero and other scholars advocate is not correct, since it concentrates only on the adverse effects of perestroika, completely ignoring all the positive effects that it had.