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Jul 9, 2024 · The reformers finally rose to the pinnacle of party leadership, however, when Mikhail Gorbachev was named general secretary in 1985. A lawyer by training and a loyal Communist, Gorbachev did not begin his tenure by urging a relaxation of the Cold War.
6 days ago · Perestroika, program instituted in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to restructure Soviet economic and political policy.
2 days ago · Soviet Union - Collectivization, Industrialization, Five-Year Plans: Stalin had now achieved a majority in the Politburo. As he began to shift to the Left, he was opposed only by Nikolay Bukharin, Aleksey Rykov, and Mikhail Tomsky.
Jul 9, 2024 · The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR – Reviews In History. In the West, it can be easy to forget just how closely China and the USSR were once bound in political imaginations.
2 days ago · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
4 days ago · Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf]; Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
4 days ago · Mikhail Vekua was born in the city of Ochamchire (Abkhazia). Graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in 2004 and completed a postgraduate study there in 2007 (class of Professor Alexei Martynov). From 2002 to 2011 he was a soloist with the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre.
