His main goal was to try and help make the abominable soviet economy, prosper, after many years of low growth and low production. All the way until his reign of power was up Mikhail Gorbachev was continuously pushing for rapid technology upgrades, modernization, and a major increase in the societies work production in means to produce more to help the society strive. He also strived for more efficient and responsive actions in foreign affairs.(Anna Sproule) Since the beginning of Mikhail Gorbachev 's reign, he was always trying to make policies and pass them so that the East part of Europe and the East part of The Soviet Union would corporate and agree to trade policies with the Soviet Union. In December of 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement with United States president, Ronald Wilson Reagan.(Tatyana Tolstaya) The agreement was for both the Soviet Union and the United States of America to destroy any and all stacks of nuclear tipped missiles because they caused many problems to both the Soviet Union and the United States. With this deal both countries felt safe that the nuclear part of the cold war was over, but many believed that both the Soviet Union and the United States still had many hidden places that were stashes for both countries to hide their nuclear tipped missiles that were clearly stated in the agreement to be destroyed. (Tatyana Tolstaya) …show more content…
All of his ideas regarding economic issues have been a huge success in the eyes of the European society. When he first came into the Soviet Union society, as a dictator, the whole country was failing. Gorbachev 's main goal was to at least get the society back at a steady pace to one day become a top society in Europe. Mikhail Gorbachev made it his top priority to turn the society around and make it a well functioning country. Mikhail Gorbachev was known for his capability to take a society that was failing and turn it around and try to make it work. Even to this day he is still trying to get Russia to a state of success. Many believed that after the end of the Cold War and the downfall of the Soviet Union that Gorbachev 's political days were in the past but little did the European societies know that he would still be very active even to this day. Mikhail Gorbachev thrived under pressure. This is why it was so hard for Mikhail Gorbachev to let the Soviet Union go and surrender and lose the Cold War to Ronald Reagan and the United States. Mikhail Gorbachev three main issues that he wanted to fix in the Soviet Union, was to fix the struggling economic outlook on the society, help and support the terrible political system, and help turn around the religious views on the society. This is what makes Mikhail Gorbachev one of the most respected and world renowned