Name: _________________________________________________________ Reading Guide?Chapter 30 After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age Toward a New Western Order The Revolutionary Era in the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev March 1985 Problems in the Soviet Union Perestroika Glasnost Problems for Gorbachev The End of the Soviet Union Boris Yeltsin Conservative arrest Gorbachev A New Russia ? Yeltsin?s reforms D. The Putin Era 1. Vladimir Putin 2. Dmitry Medvedev 3. 2012 (not in book, please look it up online) Eastern Europe: The Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Communist Order Poland Lech Walesa Hungary Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel Romania 1. Nicolae Ceausescu