Well the Collapse of Communism happened when the president of Russia was Mikhail Gorbachev. His polices/reform was that Communist strictures was clam, he would of relaxed the rules of communism and also with the reform policies of "glasnost and perestroika" Glasnost meant for openness and Perestroika meant for restructuring. Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to communism to be gone as the government. He noticed that Communism was working out well, for example people would have to wait in lines, long lines, in the store just for toothpaste. And he notcied how captlism countries would have an more choice for stuff. For example, people in Communism countries would have to get the same thing, like an dishwasher is an good example. In the US their was like 10 dishwashers to pick from which meant variety and in communism countries their was only one to pick. So people had nothing new. Mikhail Gorbachev wanted change. He even got regular people to help him out with ideas to change the government. The first thing he decided was to give free elections to people. Mikhail Gorbachev didn't like communism, and wanted change but it wasn't easy because its hard for an communism country to began having an government capitalism. It wasn't easy because they didn't know how an capitalism country is suppose to run, Mikhail Gorbachev and his society didnt know how to run the new government. And it been 25 years from now and Russia still has problems with an capitalism goveremnt. But when Mikhail Gorbachev began the capitalism country, America started to like Russia now, because they weren't communism anymore. So thanks to Mikhail Gorbachev Russia changed their government in an big time.
