It started for good health... To the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR
The article discusses the main reasons for the perestroika reforms carried out under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as their stages. It is emphasized that his initial initiatives related to the acceleration of socio-economic development and the renewal of socialist society were met with enthusiasm in the society. However, since 1987, poorly thought out, hasty experiments were initiated not only in the economics, but also in the political and ideological spheres, which led to an imbalance in the mechanism of management of society with the increase of crisis phenomena.