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It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary (also President) Mikhail Gorbachev's effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism.
Just moments before that, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation in a live televised address, drawing a line under more than 74 years of Soviet history.
“The collapse of the Soviet Union was one of those occasions in history that are believed to be unthinkable until they become inevitable.” Gorbachev’s resignation 30 years ago marked the end ...
As the colour television displays Mikhail Gorbachev's historic speech formally dissolving the Soviet Union, she overhears her mother discussing the latest and newest American cosmetic products with other adults, only to come to a final conclusion: "Mother has already betrayed us. They have all betrayed us."
The world is remembering the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at the age of 91. CBS News anchors Tanya Rivero and Michael George spoke with Michigan State ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
A personal assessment of Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who died on Tuesday at the age of 91.
Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union. The film features three interviews between Herzog and Gorbachev, conducted over the span of six months, and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film ...