Perestroika

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is a classic drama work that discusses head-on the raw controversies and issues this country has faced during a divided time. With the Reagan Administration in full swing during the 1980s and the breach of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, ideologies such as how one orientated themselves, race, gender, and religious beliefs were something that segregated the country, and are issues that are still consistent today. Kushner has managed to combine all these ideas into a…

Gorbachev. As a member of new and modern generation, his agenda was to make some reforms to communism party. These ideas were to modernize the communist party and the way the government works. The policy of reconstruction of government was called “Perestroika.” The key points of this process were to bring the country to a new level of foreign relationships and let people to have more freedom on home front. According to politicians “By 1988… Gorbachev had demonstrated…

The demise of the Soviet Union would seem to be a victory for the Soviet West because they had lived under the communist rule for so long they did know realize how different their lives were than their eastern counterparts. When The East was eventually allowed to cross the boarders into the West, many people realized that their visitors, who were all doing well off financially, had a better standard of living than they had. While one would think this was a victory for the West, it was not a…

Communist party. Two significant members of this committee were Yeltsin and Gorbachev. The Central Committee was the start of their conflicts, “...instead of focusing on the matter at hand Yeltsin, according to Gorbachev, attacked the speed of perestroika, the work of the Secretariat and Ligachev personally. From this point on, the relationship between Gorbachev and Yeltsin would only grow worse....On 10 September he organized an Inquiry Commission of the Central Committee to investigate the…

“The incalculable value of being white in America rested to a large extent on the calculable disadvantage of being black.” (Mazel: “A selection of quotes from ‘And don't call me a racist!’”) As readers explore Angels in America, issues of homophobia and the AIDS epidemic come to the forefront but the recognition of identity in Angels and how that shapes the events of the play as whole is a discussion which truly begins to explore the complexity of Kushner’s work. While the issues of sexuality…

The world did change, however, not as dramatically as many had hoped. Archie Brown, professor at Oxford University, wrote in his book “The seven years of perestroika did change the world, and for the better, although the use that has been made of the opportunities it offered falls far short of the vision of a peaceful and a more equitable world”(Brown,2007,330). For almost a decade it seemed that Russia was…

The Cold War lasted from 1947 to 1991. It was a time of tension and competition between the two superpowers of the world, The Soviet Union and The United States. The Cold War followed the end of World War II and carried through The Presidency of Ronald Reagan and eventually ended in 1991. The Cold War was called the Cold War because it never heated up into actual armed combat rather it was a competition between the powers on who could gain more military power, who could claim the land first and…

The Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern Europe was interpreted by the United States as an attempt to spread communism around the world. The United States was highly against communism. The U.S., being a capitalistic run nation, felt worried for other nations who possibly could not afford fighting against the Soviet Union. Concerned that Greece and Turkey might be the next countries to fall to Stalin, President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine. This stated that the United States would give…

Union could be fixed was if certain changes were made and these changes included reducing military spending and also, ending censorship so that other problems could be discussed. In addition to these changes, he also formed what is known as the Perestroika, which were a series of changes made to restructure the government. As a result of these changes, housing shortages grew, inflation occurred, factories closed and unemployment…

“We Win, They Lose”: How Reagan’s Foreign Policy Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did…