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Vor 3 Tagen · In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and announced substantial reforms. The process he started eventually led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although inside the Soviet Union Gorbachev had a somewhat different image than in the ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Of course, at every graduation, GSD took the opportunity to invite and bequeath to some luminary an honorary degree. It just so happened that Mikhail Gorbachev had been invited to my graduation as the guest of honor. Unfortunately, he was unable to make the trip from Moscow for health reasons. However, his right-hand man and lifelong ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The evidence cited for that was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of “New Thinking.” This emerged in the context of the Soviet state's inability to meet economic-technological-military challenges and the breakdown of a consensus based on Marxism-Leninism. In Meadian terms, the Soviet “I” was now challenging the “Me” and the experiential costs of the international role imposed by the Cold ...
Vor einem Tag · In spring 1983, shortly before the downing of the KAL 007 and the near [nuclear] miss in the Able Archer exercise, who would have been prescient enough to predict that in 1989 the Soviet Union would be four years into Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and two years from its ultimate collapse? Or going back six years to spring 2018, notwithstanding the steep deterioration already underway in U ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Today Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West. Accompanied by more nuclear sabre-rattling. “Russia will do everything to avoid a global confrontation,” the Kremlin leader said. “But at ...
Vor 23 Stunden · As noted by columnist Paul Richard Huard explained, “Had she ever sailed, the Soviet supercarrier Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Some analysts, Gorbachev among them, argue that the NATO expansion was unnecessarily provocative. “I called this a big mistake from the very beginning,” he said. “It was definitely a ...
