... Union to the collapse. Russian Historian, Vladimir Batyuk, describes how the Gorbachev reforms, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, changed Moscow's view of the world. The Communist ideology, as publicly expressed by Soviet leaders, no longer used terms like 'class struggle" by the 1970s. Mikhail Gorbachev's openness to the West, and his internal reforms - perestroika - led to the collapse ... obvious that the Communist experiment had failed miserably. The Soviet way of life, characterized by such ugly features as economic hardships, technological standstill and moral ...

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