Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of Communism

When Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to lead Russia, he wanted to change things. One of the things he did was Glasnot. Glasnot was basically the idea that the goverment would be more open in sharing information with the public about its institutions. Also the censorship of the Russian people came to an end under Gorbachev. Peristrokia was the reformation of the soviet goverment. Mikhail Gorbachev saw that communism as an economic system didnt work well for its people. When the Russian people saw the standard of living for capitalist countries they realized that they wanted to be capitalist. Mikhail Gorbachev over time began to convert the government from Communist to Capitalist. This was not an easy thing to do because Russia was communist for many decades.