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?
Like everyone everywhere, no one is above critical examination, this includes Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. They all had their flaws and their great ideas both. But no one should ever uncritically parrot everything they did.
Cause not all of their ideas were all that great. :v But if they weren't capable in some fashion the USSR wouldn't have lasted as long as it did. A country should be lead by people who are adapting to the material conditions the people find themselves in.