Such as: -starts and Anti-alcohol campaign -Invests in machinery and industry with little return -Glasnost backfired because people began hoarding goods -Deficit grew annually -He continued the war in Afghanistan for too long
-His High ranking officials were based on loyalty rather than reform mindedness
-Coup d'etat is attempted to overthrow Gorbachev in August of 1991
-Boris Yeltsin saves him, but he get elected into power anyway
-Yeltsin then made the final steps to the end of Communism
-By vote, The Ukraine gained independence from the USSR in december of 1991