Yeltsin and Gorbachev were born in the same year, but their trajectories were very different. Yeltsin belonged to the intellectuals, went to university, had a high degree, and received a lot of new things, Gorbachev belonged to the toiling masses, grew up on the farm from an early age, because of his outstanding labor achievements, Gorbachev joined the party ten years earlier than Yeltsin. It is also because of this decade of party age that Gorbachev has accumulated more social experience and political capital.
After the Soviet Union passed through Brezhnev, there was a short run-in period, and in just four years, There was Andropov and Chel in power, but both of them had a very short reign, and the national power of the Soviet Union was in the hands of Gorbachev.
At this time, the Soviet Union had reached the end of the Cold War, and after thirty years of the Cold War, although the Soviet Union once had the upper hand militarily, the gap in comprehensive national strength made the Soviet Union still lose the Cold War.
The economic situation in the Soviet Union was very poor, and its external control was gradually weakening.
In the central part of the Soviet Union, from Stalin onwards, ideological confrontation began at the top, and successors would deny many of the policies of their predecessors, and this situation continued to appear, which was a fatal blow to the top of the Soviet Union.
After Stalin's death, this confrontation continued, and different leaders took office, resulting in different state policies, and since Stalin, the soviet union's four consecutive leaders could not escape this curse.
Economically, this is the shortcoming that the Soviet Union has been having since Lenin. Even such shortcomings can be traced back to the reign of Tsarist Russia.
Beginning with Tsarist Russia, the country was keen on external expansion, but neglected internal governance, and the agricultural and industrial base was very weak, and only the military industry has been quite strong.
Thus, Tsarist Russia was only a fat power, lacking sufficient competitiveness compared with Anglo-French virtues. When a large railway ran through the East and west, Tsarist Russia went bankrupt completely.
Lenin, who overthrew Tsarist Russia and established the Soviet Union, realized the shortcomings of the Soviet Union, withdrew from world war and sought a stable economic environment for his country.
Lenin's efforts only put the development of the Soviet Union on the right track, and then Stalin came to power, the Soviet Union was affected by the financial crisis and the Second World War, in order to get out of these two crises, the Soviet Union once again focused on military development and neglected economic development.
Such shortcomings, after Stalin, successive leaders, during their term of office, have tried to solve this problem through some policies.
However, due to ideological changes, the model based on the state-owned economy established in Lenin's era has been seriously impacted, and although the policies of successive leaders have different, they seem to have the same destination, constantly consuming the economic base of public ownership.
After Gorbachev came to power, like previous leaders, he negated the policies of his predecessors, leaving the Soviet Union's top thinking in chaos again, and then Gorbachev began economic reforms.
This is the biggest weakness of the Soviet Union, and it is also the most difficult problem to deal with, and like the previous leaders, this economic reform has not brought about fundamental changes except for the further disintegration of the dominant position of the state-owned economy.
On the external front, the Soviet Union shrank in an all-round way, the Allies of Eastern Europe were in turmoil one after another, the Soviet Union was unable to influence the Allies in Eastern Europe, and the Soviet government that was originally in power lost its dominant position, which was the drastic change in Eastern Europe.
The overall failure of Gorbachev's domestic and foreign policies also gave Yeltsin a very good opportunity.
Yeltsin, who was born in the same year as Gorbachev, was highly educated and receptive to Western ideas, and he was promoted by Gorbachev but was not satisfied with the practices of his superiors.
Yeltsin was a more radical figure, he also wanted to carry out drastic reforms of the Soviet Union, and he also wanted to solve the biggest weakness of the Soviet Union's development for a long time through economic reforms.
More importantly, Yeltsin wanted to seize power, although some sources show that Yeltsin's seizure of power was caused by Western ideas, but from Yeltsin's resume, the two people were the same person, but he was more radical.
In 1990, while Gorbachev was recuperating abroad, Yeltsin began a power grab, and the hapless Gorbachev was placed under house arrest, and Yeltsin became the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union.
When Gorbachev returned to Moscow in 1991, everything changed, he had to resign, and Yeltsin was elected the first president of Soviet Russia.
After Yeltsin came to power, the Soviet Union was declared dissolved, and the huge Soviet Union split into fifteen countries, the largest of which was Russia controlled by Yeltsin.
Many people do not quite understand why Yeltsin did this, and especially why Gorbachev promoted him and why he destroyed the Soviet Union.
If viewed from a human perspective, this stems from a person's desire for power. From the perspective of social context, Yeltsin and Gorbachev were completely two worlds apart.
At the beginning of the article, it has been explained that the two of them are the same age, but have different life trajectories, from the perspective of the policies of the two people, in fact, the two of them are the same kind of people, just one radical, one particularly radical.
And the particularly radical Yeltsin, who was not accustomed to Gorbachev's approach, felt that such an approach would cause the Soviet Union to die too slowly, and he needed to give the Soviet Union a hard time.
It took Yeltsin only one year to achieve the Result of the Soviet Union.
Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh that the Soviet Union is really miserable. A superpower, caught up in a decades-long ideological struggle, constantly overthrowing the policies of its predecessors, completely derailed the Soviet Union from the track set by Lenin.
In Russia today, there is still an ideological struggle, and the economy is still the biggest problem in Russia's development. Of course, at present, Russia is still very strong, but a closer analysis will show that Russia is not as powerful as it seems on the surface.