... of perestroika or restructuring in the hope of making it more efficient. The country was in desperate need of social and more importantly economic transformation for it was in serious trouble with shortages of even the most basic items like bread. Gorbachev's plan was to introduce policies designed to begin ... problem was that instead of remaking the Soviet system he merely tried to modernize it and adjust the old one, but it had to many holes for it to possibly be repaired. Instead he should have introduced a totally different system rather than trying to fix the old one. The U.S.S.R....

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