Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of communism

Mikhail Gorbachev was the youngest leader of the Soviet Union since Joseph Stalin. He gained many supporters not only with his age, but with his social skills and overall aura. He started making improvements and changes with his forms soon after he took office. You can say that Gorbachev lead the way for the defeat of communism. Glasnost,was openess and freedom in the Soviet Union. Glasnost brought many changes and amazing things. "Peristrokia," was an economic reform that tried to reconstruct and revive the Soviet economy that took a dip during the war.