GORBACHEV

By la16651
  • Period: to

    1st period of SU

    New Economic Plan 1922

  • Gorbachev born

  • Period: to

    2nd period of SU

    Stalin-
    Inductrialisation/ repression/ aggression
  • Period: to

    3rd period of SU

    Stagnation and the Thaw

  • Khrushchev secret speech

    speech denouncing Stalin's repressive regime at 20th party conference

  • Kosygin reform

    Abandoned
    attempted to move the economy more towards profitability. focused on decentralisation as well.

  • Solidarity movement in Poland

  • Brezhev dies and Andrapov becomes gen sec

    (General Secretary)

  • Andrapov dies and Chernenko becomes Gen Sec

  • Chernenko dies and Gorbachev becomes Gen Sec

    youngest member of the politburo (wanted someone who wouldn'd die)

  • Chernobyl disaster

    highly reported- believed more people could have been saved. Glasnost allowed for open reporting of it.

  • Collapse of communism

    cencorship of the press ended

  • Strong nationalism in the Baltic states

  • Collapse of communism

    first independent political parties formed
  • Period: to

    4th period of SU

    Perestroika-
    from reform to collapse of the SU

  • Gorbachev indirectly elected President

  • Collapse of communism

    COMMUNIST PARTY RENOUNCE THEIR 'LEADING ROLE' IN GOVERNING THE COUNTRY.

  • August coup

    KGB and a large number of party officials rose up against the government.
    Yeltsin resisted the coup- tank speech
    crushed as army refused to shoot on public.

  • Gorbachev resigns from office