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In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev proposed policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) in the Soviet Union. Â These seemed like policies that leaned in the direction of Western ways of economics and politics. Â Perestroika meant allowing some measure of private enterprise in the Soviet Union. Â Glasnost meant allowing a bit of freedom in regard to speech and publication. Â Gorbachev was not trying to end the Soviet communist system. Â Rather, he was trying to prop it up and preserve it, because it was starting to have many problems sustaining itself. Â But in the end, opening things up a bit with perestroika and glasnost policies pushed the USSR further in the direction of shedding the communist model under which it had lived for so long.