This year marks the 40th anniversary of a pivotal event: The March 1985 plenum of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's ...

You know what this observer would like to see in current American politics? More Gorbachev-type Democrats, i.e., ones with real courage and patience.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic ... changing relations between the superpowers and Glasnost and Perestroika.

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The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later ... to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or restructuring. In his memoirs, he said he had long been frustrated that in a country ...

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Colonel Alksnis, the grandson of a brigade commander during the Civil War (he even graduated from the military school named ...

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