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Gorbachev 1989-1991 (positive change USSR (Western pop music, same freedom…
Gorbachev 1989-1991
positive change USSR
Western pop music
same freedom as in the West
tax on vodka
encouraged soft drinks
introduced 2 new policies
Perestroika
improve equality of goods in USSR
less central control for communist party
glasnost
greater freedom for media
1985 met Reagan to discus nukes
Reagan would not stop the star wars program
1986 met again - no agreement
1987 signed INF treaty with USA -to reduce nuke warfare
Bush 1989 signs Nuclear Weapons Reduction Treaty
1989 visits china
reduced central control economy
West traded in china
visited eastern Europe 1989
would not change, set for revolution
realized USSR couldn't compete with USA weapons
USSR needed economy reform
secretary of communist party 1985-1991
Nobel peace prize 1989
USSR - high alcoholism rates
unpopular with old conservative communists
radical young people thought change was not taking place fast enough