Gorbachev and Yeltsin

Gorbachev and Yeltsin 

• Rationalisation of perestroika, failure of reforms led to shrink in growth 
• Glasnost weakened the power of the Communist party in the USSR 
• Democratisation led to weakness as it gave Yeltsin opportunity to rise up 
• During transformation completely abandoned communist system, setting up private property, further weakened the powerbase of the soviet system 
• By 1990 Gorbachev abandoned the fundamental features of communism 
• Introduced new thinking in politics which underminded him even further 
• Perestroika, neutral word instead of reform 
• Gorbachev also advocated for pluralism, weakened the party greatly,in 1990 he removed article 6,…