1. Assess the problems facing Gorbachev on taking office as the
... had attacked to stop the civil war. It led to the death of 15000 Soviet troops. But that was not the main problem, it also led to the hostility between the USSR and much of the Muslim world. The government hoped to spread out the communist ideology threw the war and to get access to the mineral oil reserves. The Soviet Union wasn't really in control of the war and so it ended ... Glasnost and Perestroika. Leader before him led the problems swift away with out doing something. The economy was in a very bad shape in the 1980s. Not only the domestic economy couldn't meet the needs of the p...
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