The picture of a McDonald's in Russia is one the finest examples of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of
Perestroika.
Perestroika was a reformist political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Literally translated as 'Restructuring' Mikhail Gorbachev and many of his colleagues believed that the Soviet Union required urgent social and economic reforms to grow and strengthen the country.
It led to the opening up of Russia, more economic freedom and even a move towards democracy.
Historians cite the policy as one the leading causes for the fall of the Soviet Union.
By 1900 the United States had overtaken Britain in manufacturing, producing 24 percent of the world's output. After 1870 both Russia and Japan were forced by losing wars to abolish their feudal systems and to compete in the industrializing world.
"Tobacco" was the most important to the economic success of Jamestown, and in many ways it was the only economic success of Jamestown, which would have failed without it.
