Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Communism

Mikhail Gorbachev helped to open the soviet union by modernizing the economy and introducing a market economy to Russia. This led to other countries establishing a market economy and become independent. Glasnost was a program to rid the soviet union of corruption and political abuse. Perestroika was an economic program. Russian for reconstructing its goal was to restructure the soviet economy to a market economy.