Gorbachev pursued glasnost and perestroika reforms in part because the war in Afghanistan had drained the nation's resources. Mikhail Gorbachev, as known as the former General Secretary of the Soviet Union (Russia), noticed that there has been a huge decrease in their resources. They were fighting a war in Afghanistan, and used all of the nation's resources to help them win the war. Since they used most of their resources, they didn't have much to help the economy, so if they don't get enough resources back, the economy would fail. Because of this Gorbachev made a movement called "perestroika" to help get back the nation's resources. What this movement did was let the government speaker, or have a conversation, about the issues that are going on in the economy, and see if there could be a way to solve it.
<span>the government in such a case might have become an autocracy. An autocratic state is defined as one in which all the governing powers are concentrated in the hands of one individual without leaving any scope for checks and balances for administering the state.</span>
A. Isolation allowed china to develop on its own, without too much interference from foreign invasion.
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<span>pay a fee to get promoted.
Basically, you would pay a fee that would sometime even be legal and you would get a promotion in return. Sometimes it was heavy corruption, sometimes it was legal and explained as various fraudulent police training regimes or anything similar. You pay and you get a promotion.</span>
