Question

Perestroika is also believed to be the cause of the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the beginning of revolutions in many other countries in Eastern Europe including East Germany, Romania and Czechoslovakia.As more people in Eastern Europe realized real change was needed to their basic government structures violence did happen to the point of uprisings against governments.

The goal of perestroika was initially to make socialism work better for the people but it worsened the political, social and economic tensions already present within the Soviet Union. Some historians now believe that this lead to the end of the country known as the Soviet Union.

Question: What was Perestroika trying to rebuild?

Answer 1

The goal of Perestroika was to support and advance the Soviet economy which had been stagnating for years via various economic reforms similar to the ones in the West, while still maintaining predominant power over these territories.