Question

describe the role of gorbachev in disintegration of Soviet Union?​

Answer 1

When Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) on 11 March 1985 drastic reforms were demanded if the faltering USSR was to remain a superpower still able to compete with its arch-rival, the United States. Enmeshed in Afghanistan, threatened by the 'New Cold War', with a hawk (Ronald Reagan) in the White House, the economy was in free fall and living standards were plummeting. Gorbachev's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, had already concluded that reforms were needed, but he fell fatally ill before he could initiate them.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist party of Soviet Union in 1985, tried to reform the Soviet Economy which was flattering.

• Reforms were necessary to keep USSR abreast in the revolution taking place in information and technological spheres in the west.
• But the efforts to reform the Soviet Union had some other effects, that neither he nor anyone else intended.
• The people in the East European countries which were part of Soviet Bloc started to protest against their own government and Soviet control.
• But the Soviet union under Gorbachev did not intervene. When disturbances occurred the communist regimes collapsed one after another.
• These developments deepened crisis within the USSR that lead to its disintegration.