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As Mikhail Gorbachev announced perestroika and glasnost, small-time dictators who had copied Joseph Stalin's policies had no choice but to realise that their days were numbered.
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* 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
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* 1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
On December 19, 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev, who had initiated the policies of perestroika and glasnost, called Sakharov to tell him that he and his wife may return to Moscow.
Later, during glasnost, he declined the return of his awards and, consequently, Mikhail Gorbachev did not sign the necessary decree.
Under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union was able to depose Karmal and replace him with Mohammad Najibullah.
The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.
From then on, until the ascension of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Central Committee played a minor role in the running of the party and state – the Politburo was the highest political organ in the Soviet Union.
Chernenko, the official second-ranking secretary, competed for power with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Greater political and social freedoms, instituted by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, created an atmosphere of open criticism of the communist regime.
His most significant legacy to the Soviet Union was his discovery and promotion of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in March 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.
* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
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Only after the ascendancy of Mikhail Gorbachev to Soviet leadership in 1985 did mass media in Finland gradually begin to criticize the Soviet Union more.
Introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s, Glasnost is often paired with Perestroika ( literally: Restructuring ), another reform instituted by Gorbachev at the same time.
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The Soviet Union, under the reformist leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, refused to intervene on the basis of his policy to de-escalate the Cold War and let East Germany resolve its own crisis.
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At the time the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost, which weakened Soviet influence in Europe, particularly in the USSR.
* 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union and begins reforms which inadvertently lead to the collapse of Communism and USSR.
Erich Honecker and guests of honor like Mikhail Gorbachev celebrate the 40th ( and last ) anniversary of the socialist regime of the German Democratic Republic on 7 October 1989.
Mikhail and announced
Mikhail Saakashvili on May 22, 2008 announced his confident victory for his ruling party in parliamentary polls amid fears of political unrest, and rising tensions between Georgia and Russia.
According to returns announced on June 17, Yeltsin won 35 % of the vote ; Zyuganov won 32 %; Aleksandr Lebed, a populist ex-general, a surprisingly high 14. 5 %; liberal candidate Grigory Yavlinsky 7. 4 %; far-right nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 5. 8 %; and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev 0. 5 %.
The Acmeist mood was first announced by Mikhail Kuzmin in his 1910 essay " Concerning Beautiful Clarity ".
Ex-President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev also announced his willingness to act as an intermediary in the course of negotiations.
When Mikhail Gorbachev announced his reform program, Zhivkov made a show of copying it, believing that Gorbachev wasn't really serious about glasnost or perestroika.
In January 1998 it was announced that Sibneft would merge with Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Yukos to create the third-largest oil company in the world.
Mikhail Saakashvili on May 22, 2008 announced his confident victory for his ruling party in parliamentary polls amid fears of political unrest, and rising tensions between Georgia and Russia.
In January 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev announced the new policy of ' democratization ' under which future Soviet elections would offer the electorate a choice between multiple candidates per position, although all candidates would continue to be CPSU members.
Unluckily, Konchaka died when she was in the custody of Mikhail ; Yuri announced to the Khan that she had been poisoned by order of Mikhail.
Breaking from their usual traditions of employing supermodels and celebrities to advertise their products, on 2 August 2007, the company announced that the former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev would appear in an ad campaign along with Steffi Graf, gomez, and Catherine Deneuve.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky and his fellow Red Army officers were tried in secret by a military tribunal, and their executions were announced only after the fact.
He demanded a fundamental change to the Communist system and a new leadership, two decades before Mikhail Gorbachev he announced that economic reform could not be separated from fundamental political change.
In June 2007, then-Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced the formation of the Government Council for Nanotechnology, to oversee the development of nanotechnology in the country.
On March 14, 1613, the Zemsky Sobor announced that Mikhail Romanov, who had been in this monastery at that time, would be the Russian tsar.
After Nets ownership changed hand, Mikhail Prokhorov announced that Vandeweghe would not return the following season.
Mikhail and perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev had appeared in the Soviet Union with new policies ( glasnost and perestroika ).
The grassroots democracy movement that forced the dismissal of East German head of state Erich Honecker in 1989 also empowered a younger generation of reform politicians in East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party who looked to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika as their model for political change.
In the early 1990s, the term " Pepsi-stroika " began appearing as a pun on " perestroika ", the reform policy of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev.
From 1985 onwards, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to enact liberal reforms in the Soviet system, introduced the policies of glasnost ( openness ) and perestroika ( restructuring ) in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation in the country and democratise the government.
Under Deng Xiaoping, the leadership of China embarked upon a programme of market-based reform that was more sweeping than had been Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika program of the late 1980s.
Under Mikhail Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika were intended to revive the Soviet Union.
The film also had impact outside the U. S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television.
** The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring ( perestroika ) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ( though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985 ).
The Soviet Union attempted to introduce a market socialist system with its perestroika reforms under Mikhail Gorbachev.
In the late 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost and perestroika, reforms to liberalise communism.
For example, Mikhail Gorbachev described perestroika as building a " new, humane and democratic socialism.
Alexander Yakovlev, later an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and the ideologist of perestroika, said " In a way I always thought Andropov was the most dangerous of all of them, simply because he was smarter than the rest.
Among the winners were the new class of entrepreneurs and black marketeers that had emerged under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika.
In the 1980s, the SED rejected the policies of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, such as perestroika and glasnost, maintaining its tight control over the state.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika did not have a significant impact on Turkmenistan.
Mikhail Gorbachev also refers to eurocommunism as a key influence on the ideas of glasnost and perestroika in his memoirs.
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced " glasnost " ( openness ) and " perestroika " ( restructuring ) in 1985, hoping to stimulate the failing Soviet economy and encourage productivity, particularly in the areas of consumer goods, the liberalisation of co-operative businesses and the service economy.
During the second half of the 1980s as Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost and perestroika in the USSR, which rolled back restrictions to freedom in the Soviet Union, aversion to the Soviet regime had grown into the third Latvian National Awakening, which reached its peak in mid-1988.
With partners from Komsomol, and technically operating under its authority, Khodorkovsky opened his first business in 1986, a private café ; an enterprise made possible by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's programme of perestroika and glasnost.
The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika and glasnost, finally revealed that the quality of Komsomol management was bad.
In the mid 1980s, the new Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika (" reconstruction ", " reorganization ", 1987 ) and glasnost (" openness ", ca.
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