Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev was a young leader with new ideas to offer for his country. Gorbachev realized that he couldnt just change things right away, he had to enforce a policy known as glasnost. Glasnost means openness. This include releasing books that were banned, freeing people from jail who did not actually do anything against the law, and the most surprising was that churches were opening. For the first time im many years, the Soviet Union was allowed its people to practice religion. With newly given freedom of speach, citizens now could share their opinions on the economic and political structure on the government. Gorbachev found out that the source of most economic problems was that the government told buisnesess what price to sell products and how much they get paid. Gorbachev now let people start their own buisnesess free from the controll of the government. He soon realize that the only way to fixthe economy completly was for Communism to lose its grip on the Soviet Union completly. Slowly by slowly starting in areas such as Poland and hungary, small reforms starty to take place and democracy slowly takes over. More events such as the fall of the Berlin wall and the unification of Germany also brings communism to its end. Eventually Communism completly collapse due to the revolutionary efforts by Mikhail Gorbachev.