However, the forces unleashed by granting freedoms were overwhelming. Gorbachev could have perhaps temporarily avoided the disintegration of the Soviet Union through a decisive use of force and harsher approach, though its eventual destruction was inevitable. Soviet stability relied on two main factors: a strong leader and the use of force to stifle political opposition. The pattern in pre-revolutionary Russia has seemed to be frenzied bursts of change followed by long periods of tyranny. Vladimir Lenin, proving the infallibility of this cycle, took control of the government in a time of political turbulence. As John Parker alludes to in “The Coming Russian Boom” ,the Russian people
However, the forces unleashed by granting freedoms were overwhelming. Gorbachev could have perhaps temporarily avoided the disintegration of the Soviet Union through a decisive use of force and harsher approach, though its eventual destruction was inevitable. Soviet stability relied on two main factors: a strong leader and the use of force to stifle political opposition. The pattern in pre-revolutionary Russia has seemed to be frenzied bursts of change followed by long periods of tyranny. Vladimir Lenin, proving the infallibility of this cycle, took control of the government in a time of political turbulence. As John Parker alludes to in “The Coming Russian Boom” ,the Russian people