Faraway, So Close!
1993
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5 days ago · In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a double agent for MI6. For over a decade, he leaked Russian secrets that would inform international policy in both London and Washington.
5 days ago · I remember former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev telling me with tears in his eyes that "No more war" was precisely what Russians told him when he travelled the country as Soviet leader. The...
23 hours ago · Its activities were suspended on Soviet territory 74 years later, on 29 August 1991, soon after a failed coup d'état by conservative CPSU leaders against the reforming Soviet president and party general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The CPSU was a communist party based on democratic centralism. This principle, conceived by Lenin, entails ...
23 hours ago · 5:40. Vladimir Putin, an avid student of Russian history, knows well the twin threats that undid some of his predecessors in the Kremlin, from Tsar Nicholas II to Mikhail Gorbachev: One is to ...
1 day ago · First, Rutland argues that Mikhail Gorbachev was weak, while Putin is strong: “institutional foundations of the Putin regime are robust and it will likely survive the death of its founder.”
4 days ago · [Mikhail Gorbachev was General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party from 1985 to 1991 and the last President of the Soviet Union.] Because Czechoslovakia was among the countries where you could not speak of any reform of the Communist Party at all.
2 days ago · In the 1980s, the Soviet Union glasnost provoked KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov (in office: 1988–1991) to lead the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état in an attempt to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. The failed coup d'état and the collapse of the USSR heralded the end of the KGB on 3 December 1991.
