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; Mikhail Gorbachev; By gently pushing open the gates of reform, he unleashed a democratic flood that deluged the Soviet universe and washed away the cold war; By TATYANA TOLSTAYA; Intro: Our Century ... and the Next One;
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In a series of summit talks (1985–88), Gorbachev improved relations with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, with whom he signed an Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) arms limitation treaty in 1987. By 1989 he had brought about the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (see Afghanistan War) and had sanctioned the end...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Mikhail Gorbachev (president of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), March 2, 1931Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His ...
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They're saying, 'Gorbachev, stay in our country!'" Then Rakowski remarked, "If it's true that these are representatives of people from twenty-eight regions of the country, it means the end." I said, "I think you're right." ... And about me Reagan said, "Gorbachev is a diehard Bolshevik!"
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; Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan at the Geneva Summit on November 21, 1985. ... Abroad, Gorbachev cultivated relations and trade with developed nations in the East and West. He consented to a withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslavakia. In 1990 Gorbachev received the Nobel Prize...
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Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was born in the village of Privolnoye near Stavropol, Russia. From the age of 13 he worked on a collective farm, where his father was a mechanic. ... Brezhnev's successor, Yuri Andropov, appeared to be grooming Gorbachev as his own successor, but after Andropov's unexpected death,
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From modest beginnings at the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress in 1986, perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic, political, and social restructuring, became the unintended catalyst for dismantling what had taken nearly three-quarters of a century to erect: the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist totalitarian state.
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