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Mikhail Gorbachev

Aims and Learning Outcomes

 

Aims

  • To explain how Gorbachev came to lead the USSR
  • To explain why he introduced such rapid and wide reaching changes
  • To examine why Gorbachev is viewed differently in different countries

Learning Outcomes

These notes should help students to improve and develop their knowledge and understanding of such issues as:

  • The nature of Communist rule in the USSR and Eastern Europe
  • Why Gorbachev’s reforms led to the collapse of the USSR