People power- end of the Cold War
- Created by: Georgia Ivy
- Created on: 19-04-15 14:39
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- 'People Power'
- Discontent of Eastern Europe
- Economic
- reduction in living standards, prices and unemployment increased
- Due to USSR's cut back on subsidised oil and gas as world prices fell
- Technology basic compared to US
- Industrial pollution high
- Consumerism
- East Germany, Czechoslovakia,Hungary could receive Western TV signals from West Germany borders
- People in EE had higher expectations of living standards and wanted consumerist lifestyle
- Freedom of movement won at Helsinki in 1975
- People in EE had higher expectations of living standards and wanted consumerist lifestyle
- Freedom of movement won at Helsinki in 1975
- East Germany, Czechoslovakia,Hungary could receive Western TV signals from West Germany borders
- Economic
- Desire for Political reform
- despite Helsinki Accords being signed in 1975, continued repression in EE
- dismayed at continued political repression, censorship and human right abuses to maintain power
- Harliner Honecker- made the Stasi especially repressive
- Late 1980s Kadar, Husak and Zhivkov were firmly in power and opposition limited
- despite Helsinki Accords being signed in 1975, continued repression in EE
- European detente
- EE motivated by human rights and wanted to be treated as citizens like the WEST
- Basket 3 of Helsinki Accords stated this as their right
- EE motivated by human rights and wanted to be treated as citizens like the WEST
- Mitchell (US Historian) 'trojan horse' which would eventually destroy USSR
- Argued that New thinking policy by Gorbachev was product of European detente and popular discontent
- Strong sense of Nationalism
- an 'empire by ****' created and maintained by force, not consent
- East German nationalism- desire for reunification and not loyal to USSR
- Nationalism growing in the Caucasus and Baltic States
- Forces of Nationalism would have eventually led to break up of the USSR because it structurally lacked legitimacy to maintain
- Revolutions
- POLAND
- HUNGARY
- Smith- 'ended from below'
- Discontent of Eastern Europe
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