I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
I was always under the impression that Gorbachev was a naïve optimist who tried to reform the USSR too rapidly, but failed. So how exactly did he screw up and how could the USSR have been saved?
Considering popularity of ussr on the eve of dissolution, they would have shed maybe eastern europe (but they weren’t in ussr in any case) with two parties, but second party could have easily be constructed to be trotskyite or anarchist (I.e. something that’s not very attached to the west).
They were brainwormed at the top and middle, but not at the bottom. Local ssr is hard to navigate, considering absolute rot they were in, but it would have been better if they have done it via local sortition among workers of the ssr