"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Foreign policy. The withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan July 28, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva Photo: Ria Novosti Archive, Image #58833 / A. Solomonov / CC-by-SA 3.0 Foreign policy.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. The debunking of a socialist myth July 27, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva The position of the church in the conditions of publicity the party weakened the traditional control of the party over the church. This was due not so much with the abandonment of atheism as one of the postulates of communist ideology, but with the intention to demonstrate the commitment of democratic freedoms, among which the freedom of religion did not seem so dangerous.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Law "On the State Enterprise" July 26, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva The Law "On a State Enterprise (Association)" by the peak of reformal activity of the authorities was 1988. In January, the Law “On a State Enterprise (Association)”, designed to ensure the gradual transition of enterprises to the production of products in accordance with demand, rather than a directive plan.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. B.N. Yeltsin July 25, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva B.N. Yeltsin By that time, disagreements were identified among the reformers themselves. B. N. Yeltsin to Perestroika headed the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU. Gorbachev called him to Moscow as a successful party functionary, not related to the Moscow elite.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Political reform July 22, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva Political reform 1988 was a turning point in the history of Perestroika. M.S. Gorbachev wrote that then "we came to understand that we should not improve, but reform the system." It would seem that the enterprises were given more economic independence, cooperative and individual activities were allowed, the management apparatus was reorganized, and contractual prices were introduced.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Different interests July 21, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva Various interests by mid -1987 economic and political transformations affected the interests of different social groups. The real demarcation began. They argued at work and at home - they chose the future of the country. Various informal associations and organizations were actively created, their number was measured by hundreds.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Chernobyl July 20, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva Chernobyl on the night of April 26, 1986 an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which cut off or mutilated the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. But the main thing is that she demonstrated the depravity of the regime of secrecy when it comes to people's lives. The population learned about the threat to health a few days after the accident.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Attempt "Acceleration" July 17, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva M. S. Gorbachev and reformers from his environment realized the vices of the Soviet economic system. In their memoirs, they wrote that there were many reports of industry and intersectoral institutions in the CPSU Central Committee, the authors of which offered the decentralization of the managerial model.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Military-industrial complex July 13, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva A special economic sphere in the USSR was a military-industrial complex (VPK), which included thousands of factories, design bureaus, research institutes. All the best concentrated there. The Politburo did not regret the money for the purchase for them of the most modern equipment.

"Acceleration" and "Perestroika". 1986-1988. Initiative from above July 12, 2022, Natalia Eliseeva In order for a peaceful transition to the market, private property, political pluralism in our country, the initiative was needed from above. Such an initiative was manifested. The collapse of the socialist system, based on fear of repression, occurred thanks to the publicity of publicity and democratization begun by M. S. Gorbachev.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a decline in the pace of economic development of the USSR was clearly indicated. The growth of national income slowed down, in 1961–1965 it grew by only 5.7% - much less than in the previous five -year plan. This was clearly not enough to solve aggravated socio-economic problems.

In the 1970-1980s, the growing lag of the USSR from countries with a market economy grew into a systemic crisis that exacerbated social problems. At the beginning of the Brezhnev rule, the living standards, although slowly, increased. The essence of the peculiar silent “agreement” between the Brezhnev regime and the population was the orientation of society to consumer standards.

In society USSR by 1984. The origin of the human rights movement June 22, 2022 Vladimir Shestakov The Soviet government relied on an effective system of state security, which properly served the political leadership of the country. All the Bolshevik leaders, starting with Lenin, considered political repressions a lawful and effective element of politics. The state security organs reached the greatest power under Stalin.

Gennady Burbulis has always been a mystery to me. Even having met him personally, I could not understand how this soft, quiet and immersed man for a couple of years ascended to the incredible height of Russian politics. Yes, yes, there is no exaggeration. There was a moment when he was the second person in the state hierarchy. And it was he who connected Yeltsin’s political power to the reform potential of Gaidar.

Gennady Burbulis came to politics, like many other democrats, from the discussion club organized by him. The difference was that the club was in Sverdlovsk then, in which Boris Yeltsin was the main character. And as a fellow countryman, the associate professor of the philosophy of Burbulis entered the near circle of Yeltsin, who then needed a political manager without his own large ambitions (which Yuri Afanasyev and Gabriel Popov then had then).