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3 days ago · Learn how Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union unleashed forces that ended the Cold War. (more) See all videos for this article. When these superficial changes failed to yield tangible results, Gorbachev in 1987–88 proceeded to initiate deeper reforms of the Soviet economic and political system.
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Aug 30, 2022 · Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War - BBC News. 30 August 2022. Mikhail Gorbachev was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th Century. He...
Aug 31, 2022 · As Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at 91, later agreed, nuclear war could not be won and must never be fought. What changed? The decommunization of Eastern Europe and...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and...
Aug 31, 2022 · 1949–2021. View timeline. Abroad, Gorbachev understood that he had to reduce Cold War tensions with the United States so that his country could focus on internal reconstruction, including...
Apr 5, 2006 · This would have happened even without Gorbachev, writes JOSEPH S. NYE. EARLIER this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 75th birthday with a concert and conference at his foundation in Moscow. Unfortunately, he is not popular with the Russian people who blame him for the loss of Soviet power.
At a November 2014 event marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warned that the ongoing war in Donbas had brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War, and he accused Western powers, particularly the US, of adopting an attitude of "triumphalism" towards Russia.
