Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union, the kind of head of the Communist Party. How many political parties in the Soviet Union? That's right, there's only one, there's only a communist, there's no democracy. So basically what occurred was Gorbachev was kind of cool. He was a little cooler, especially cooler than Stalin, but even the other leaders of Khrushchev and Brezhnev, he kind of had a little bit more of a democracy in his heart. So he thought that he could institute some freedoms and still be communist. That he still could command the economy, remember a command economy is when the government controls everything, unlike a laissez-faire government where the government doesn't do anything to control the economy.