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Dissidents movement
"enormous pressure was coming from within it through the thousands of intellectuals and millions of ordinary people who had completely lost belief in the communist ideology" (Pryce-Jones 33).
"Soviet life, then, was an abyss of limitless degradation, creating in each individual a sense if his own helplessness" (Pryce-Jones 33).
Marat Akcharin is a writer who traveled though the Soviet Union in May and June of 1990 and said "I met no one who was happy with his life" (35).
with reference to demonstrations supporting perestroika "The big so-called demonstrations were organized by the party
economy
in 1988 it was announced that the deficit was 127 billion rubles which the economist Yegor Gaidar (who would become Yelstin's Prime minister) said would surely lead to collapse if not attended to by 1990. In 1990, the Shatalin plan was proposed by Grigory Yavlinsky and Yakovlev. Gorbachev essentially turned down the radical plan for free market in fear of creating private property which created the Shatalin plan which consisted of contradicting free market and centralization economic plans. "Gorbachev had locked the economy, and with it the future of the party and the Soviet Union, into tests of strength which could have no other outcome except contradiction and paralysis.
Gorbachev wanted to boost the production of the machine- tool industry which would be returning to programs similar to Stalin's original Five-Year Plan through the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth FIve-Year Plans. However, Gorbachev was determined to achieve this by decentralizing the governement. In other words, he wanted to increase the production of the people without having disciplinary oversight over them. (Pryce- Jones 100).
Without an increase in production, Gorbachev still increased the salaries of the workers in the Law on State Enterprises that came into effect on January 1988. At the time, ecomists urged GOrbachev against the plan but he insisted. The result was that any improvement in production ceased: shelves were empty again and "Between 1988 and 1991, there was a drop of over 25 percent in production" . THe defeicet increased to 20 percent which "If you look at the point where military coups are carried out in Latin America, you will find that they coincide with a budget deficit of 20 per cent" (Pryce-Jones 101)
Gorbachev offered peasants the opportunity to open their own farm but their were few takers because the demographic he offered it to was not skilled in agriculture. Therefore, he should have offered it to the people in the country-side who would actually be willing to accept the offer. By targeting the rural areas, increased production would be more plausible.
People high up
"The attempt at reform was destruction enough. If you pull out one brick, then the whole edifice collapses" (Pryce-Jones 32).
"The Communist Party for a long time had had little or nothing to do with ideology, it had become the party of state management" (Pryce-Jones 32)
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Intro
"perestroika was a call to return to the true Lenin whom Stalin had misinterpreted" ( Volkogonov 441)
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"Inadequate information, lack of capacity to judge reality as it is, false preconceptions,can reduce the would be hero to a fool" ( Pryce-Jones 6)
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