The lecture by Alexander Shubin, professional historian, and participant of perestroika, is devoted to issues such as the reasons for the failure of perestroika and its impact on the events of today.
Alexander Shubin’s lecture will be devoted to the history of perestroika—its reasons, political rivalry inside the Soviet government, social and ethnic movements, new thinking policy, and key events of the era, such as the Congress of People's Deputies, the establishment of the State Committee on the State of Emergency, and the collapse of the USSR. Witness to some of these events and participant in others, Alexander Shubin argues that what happened in the USSR during perestroika was a revolution that anticipated the development of human society in the centuries to come—however, the USSR did not offer fertile ground for it to develop. Issues that were not tackled during perestroika will have to be tackled in the future.
