The+Fall+of+Communism

=**The Fall of Communism**= By Jennifer B.

What would turn out to be a significant shift in Soviet [|leadership] occurred in 1985. When Mikhail Gorbachev became head of state his plans for more new ideas and policies were accompanied by an attempt at restructuring the Soviet economic system. Gorbachev also made waves on the foreign policy front. Early in his administration he made it clear that the Soviet Union was no longer going to impose its policies set in motion for the political,economic, and military ties which bonded these countries with the Soviet Union. By 1989, the fall of the Berlin Waal reunited Germany with the other countries ending the Cold War.After the cold war ended the soviet union was isolated as the only communist state. Gorbachev was sidelined, and more radical groups within the Soviet Communist Party, led by Boris Yeltsin, announced the dissolution of the regime. Development in Western Communicm took a paralle course. In 1949 the hopes of spreading revolution to the west became more worse, making the defeat of the Greek Communist in the civil war of 1944-1949.

Lévesque, Jacques (1997). [|The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe] . [|University of California Press] , 275. [|ISBN 978-0520206311]