End of soviet domination

1. Describe and analyze three reasons for the end of soviet domination over Eastern Europe.

On New Year's Eve, 1991, the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics was dissolved, sixty-nine years after its founding. By the end of October 1990, all fifteen Soviet republics had already declared their sovereignty. The fall of communism can ironically be described as the “domino theory”. Starting with Mikhail Gorbachev’s effort to transform soviet society, non-communist governments spread from Poland and Hungary to each member of the Eastern bloc. The three reasons I will be describing are Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms, the changes in Poland, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. These brought the end to not only Communism, but also the complete end of the ideology of Marxism.
The main reason I feel for the end of soviet domination over Eastern Europe was Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnot (“openness”) and perestroika (“restructuring”) campaign. Gorbachev climbed the Soviet’s party...