Post Cold War

POST COLD WAR

·      The Collapse of Soviet Union

The Soviet Union is a federation of socialist communist countries that pioneered the establishment by Lenin with the Bolsheviknya after to overthrow the powers of Tsar Nicolas II in 1917 through the Bolshevik Revolution. At the time of the Soviet Union led by Michael Gorbachev, he suggested the idea of ​​renewal or restructuring through Glasnot (openness) and perestroika (democratization). It is intended to catch up with the Soviet Union in the fields of economics and politics compared to Western European countries. But after the idea was presented by Michael Gorbachev appeared various upheavals in various parts of the Republic of the Soviet Union, and eventually Gorbachev was unable merngendalikannya. Updates and changes that had been intended to promote the Soviet Union became the main cause of the collapse of Soviet Union.

In general, the causes of the collapse of Soviet Union are:

1. System Marxism did not have effective control of both the political and economic fields.

2. Marxism does not have the flexibility in the face of changing times.

3. Pertestroika Gorbchevtentang Policy and Glasnot contrary to Marxism.

4. Another of Gorbachev's policy is endangering the existence of socialism

communism.

5. Marxism rely more on the strength of the workers, not in accordance with the state of the Soviet Union the largely peasant who wants to have property rights.

The collapse of the Soviet Union lead to some impacts on the state of the world, namely:

1. The end of the Cold War between the West Block (Ameriuka States) with the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union).

2. Reduced anxiety towards the World War III.

3. Many communist country turned into a democratic state.

4. United States appeared as a superpower.

5. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe countries.

NEGATIVE (COLD WAR) :

1.      Military field

With the existence of nuclear weapons developed rapidly by both countries, the people of the world to experience tremendous fear for the possibility of an actual nuclear war by the two countries in dispute. NATO is a defense organization which roughly agreed on the agreement that if one country is attacked it is considered an attack against NATO.

2.      Politics

Impact in the field of politics we can see from the construction of the Berlin Wall in Germany as the boundary between West Germany and East Germany. In the second world war the country had been divided into two, namely West Germany which had its capital in Bonn and East Germany which had its capital in Berlin. The country is experiencing a split because there are 2 different ideologies that prevail in this country, which adopted the German liberal western and eastern German Communist adopted. This wall is very well known to people as a symbol of the Cold War.