Gorbachev’s Revolution – Perestroika

Ever since the early 1980’s, anyone who did some analysis of what the situation was in the Soviet Union, could easily see that the U.S.S.R. was going to face serious economic, political, population and other problems, during the 1990’s going into the new the millennium. Even people in the Soviet Union were coming up with the same type of analysis. Mikhail Gorbachev also felt that Soviet Union needed economical and political reforms in order to be able to compete with the United States. Hypothesis can be made that Gorbachev was an instrument to social change in a Soviet Union.
Social movement theory is based on the model, where some kind of strain or disturbance in the social environment, such as an economic depression creates disruptive psychological states in individuals, such as anxiety, and individuals then direct their energy into a social movement in order to relieve their emotional difficulties. Gorbachev led people to believe that changes were needed and started to...