Gorbachev's New Thinking

• What did Gorbachev want to do?


  Reform communism
• When was Gorbachev elected?


  1985
• What was Perestroika?


  • Reorganising and restructuring the Soviet state
  • Reforming the economy and bringing in capitalist practices
  • Moved away from the centralisation of industry
  • Private business ownership was now allowed
  • Soviet businesses allowed to trade with Western countries
  • Russian for reconstruction