Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Oppression In Russia
Oppression of the citizens of Russia began to come to an end when Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Empire, was put into power in the late 80s. He ended oppression with his policies of glasnost, openness, and perestroika, restructuring, and finally opened Russia up to the rest of the world. The first part of perestroika that Gorbachev exercised was the reformation of the electoral system (White 31). Previously all elections only had the number of candidates that there were seats for, meaning if there were 100 seats for new chairman there were 100 candidates (White 31-32). Also, there was no privacy and much suspicion and spying while people voted and thus many people were intimidated to vote differently anyway. The new rules said that there could be an unlimited number of candidates for each position, and there were usually two or three candidates for each position thereafter. (White 34). In the 1989 elections there were not-so-surprising results; most of the old, hard-style communist leaders of cities were ousted and replaced with younger representatives more into the Gorbachev ideology. The people were finally given their own choice in who would lead them through the difficult times of reform (Sproule 48)
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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