“Individuals were permitted to own businesses and
earn profits.”
<span>Mikhail
Gorbachev was the General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Prior to assuming
his office, a lot of attention went to creating up the nation’s military at the
cost of development within the </span>Soviet Union, which eventually destabilized the economy.<span>
Gorbachev
began reforming the Soviet Union by implementing policies to bring about
individual freedom, bureaucratic transparency, and to motivate economic change<span>.</span></span>
