Russia's Revolution from Above, 1985-2000 by Gordon Hahn

Author:Gordon Hahn [Hahn, Gordon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Europe
ISBN: 9781351326186
Google: 9ptYDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27T05:05:40+00:00

Conclusion

Like Khrushchev, but on a much grander scale, Gorbachev had threatened the vital interests of the core institutions of the Soviet party-state coalescing a concerted reactionary backlash from party, military, and KGB elements. He put more on the reform agenda at one time than the system could tolerate: a second reorganization of the party apparat, plans for a reorganization of the state executive branch, razgranichenie in party-power ministry relations, economic transition, military reform, the abandonment of the USSR’s global revolutionary network and its East European empire, German reunification, and united Germany’s imminent entrance into NATO. Gorbachev’s turn to the right marked a new conjuncture in the perestroika era marked by a higher degree of regime-opposition polarization and pregnant with the possibility of violent confrontation and civil war. During the dark winter of 1990-1991, negotiations toward a transition pact under the Union Treaty were put on hold, and revolutionary crisis politics spilled onto the streets. Chapter 7 examines the fever of Soviet revolutionary crisis politics.

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