* 1986 – Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure

On 16 December 1986, the Soviet Politburo dismissed the long serving General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Dinmukhamed Konayev.

XXVII Congress of the CPSU | The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1986

Funding resumed in early 1984 when Valentin Glushko was ordered by the Central Committee's Secretary for Space and Defence to orbit Mir by early 1986, in time for the 27th Communist Party Congress.

In a historic shift in 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam implemented free-market reforms known as ( Renovation ).

* 1986 – 1989: Deputy chief editor of the Communist Party newspaper Rahva Hääl

The Reagan administration gave varying degrees of support to anti-Communist dictatorships, including those in Guatemala ( to 1985 ), the Philippines ( to 1986 ), and Argentina ( to 1983 ), and armed the mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, UNITA during the Angolan Civil War, and the Contras during the Nicaraguan Revolution as a means of ending ( or preventing ) Communist rule in those countries.

SKPy, originally the faction of the party expelled in 1985 – 1986, outlasted its parent and registered itself as the Communist Party of Finland in 1997 but has been unable to regain the former Communist Party's parliamentary representation.

He was Mayor of Córdoba, Spain from 1979 to 1986 and coordinator of United Left ( Izquierda Unida, IU ) between 1989 and 1999 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain ( PCE ) from 1988 to 1998.

The Federation was founded as the Anarchist Communist Federation in March 1986 by the Anarchist Communist Discussion Group, which had coalesced around two anarcho-communists who had returned from France and began selling the pamphlets of the defunct Libertarian Communist Group tendency, and members of Syndicalist Fight.

It was formed in 1950 by members of the dissolved Anarchist Federation of Britain ( not to be confused with the current Anarchist Federation which was founded as the Anarchist Communist Federation in 1986 ).

He became deputy head of Komsomol ( the Communist Youth League ) at his university, the Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology, where he graduated in chemical engineering in 1986.

Liu Bocheng (; December 4, 1892 – October 7, 1986 ) was a Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army.

From 1983 to 1986 he was the Communist Youth League leader at the cement factory in Ararat.

* 1986 – instructor of town committee of Stepanakert Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Roy Marcus Cohn ( February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986 ) was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare.

* Communist Forum ( 1986 )

Though formally Marxist-Leninist, the Communist Party of Vietnam has moved towards market reforms in the economy ( see also Đổi Mới, the Renewal launched by the Sixth Congress in 1986 ) and has permitted a growing mid-level private sector.

The Communist Party of Cuba held its first Party Congress in 1975 and has had additional congresses in 1980, 1986, 1991 and 1997.

It was founded on January 3, 1986 and has a youth wing the Union of Communist Youth of Tunisia ( UJCT ).

The RCP's programme can be traced through the publications " Our Tasks and Methods " ( a reprint of the Revolutionary Communist Group's founding document ), the 1983 general election manifesto Preparing for Power and the article " The Road to Power " in the theoretical journal Confrontation ( 1986 ).

He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems of the time, in support of the Labour Party.

Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician and the presidential candidate of the Christian Democracy Party, won the first election held under the new constitution with almost 70 % of the vote, and took office on January 14, 1986.

* Green Ecological Party ( Partido Verde Ecologista de México, PVEM ), founded in 1986, but lost its registry on two consecutive elections ; it has retained its registry since 1993 ;

* 1986 – John Spence, British Conservative Party politician ( b. 1920 )

As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost (" openness "), perestroika (" restructuring "), demokratizatsiya (" democratization "), and uskoreniye (" acceleration " of economic development ), which were launched at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February 1986.

In June 1986 the Labour Party finally expelled the deputy leader of Liverpool council, the high profile Militant supporter Derek Hatton, who was found guilty of " manipulating the rules of the district Labour party ".

The abolition of rates was in the manifesto of Thatcher's Conservative Party in the 1979 general election, and the replacement was proposed in the Green Paper of 1986, Paying for Local Government based on ideas developed by Dr Madsen Pirie and Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute.

The PNM, opposed by Dr. Rudranath Capildeo of the Democratic Labor Party and Ashford Sinanan, who later founded the West Indian National Party ( WINP ), continued to dominate politics in Trinidad and Tobago until 1986.

The 1986 creation of the Reform Party of Canada attracted some of the neo-liberals and social conservatives away from the Tory party, and as some of the neoconservative policies of the Mulroney government proved unpopular, some of the provincial-rights elements moved towards Reform as well.

* Germs Rock ' N ' Rule — Recorded Live At The Masque Christmas Party — Whisky A-Go-Go, December 1979, Hollywood, 1986, Xes Records

Norma Jean Almodovar, a former officer with the Los Angeles Police Department and former call girl who authored the book From Cop To Call Girl about her experiences, ran on the Libertarian Party ticket for California lieutenant governor in 1986 and was actively supported by the party.

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Giovanni Gronchi ( 1946 – 1948 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1948 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Spataro ( 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1950 ), Giuseppe Bettiol ( 1950 – 1953 ), Aldo Moro ( 1953 – 1956 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1956 – 1958 ), Luigi Gui ( 1958 – 1962 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1962 – 1968 ), Fiorentino Sullo ( 1968 ), Giulio Andreotti ( 1968 – 1972 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1972 – 1978 ), Giovanni Galloni ( 1978 – 1979 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1979 – 1983 ), Virginio Rognoni ( 1983 – 1986 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1986 – 1989 ), Vincenzo Scotti ( 1989 – 1990 ), Antonio Gava ( 1990 – 1992 ), Gerardo Bianco ( 1992 – 1994 )

The Green Party managed to establish itself in parliament from 1986 onwards.

Nils Daniel Carl Bildt KCMG ( born 15 July 1949 ) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999.

Bildt was elected leader of the Moderate Party in 1986, succeeding Ulf Adelsohn.

Though opposition political parties were still illegal, when the Democratic Progressive Party was established as the first opposition party in 1986, President Chiang decided against dissolving the group or persecuting its leaders.

The three Gold Coast federal divisions have returned only Liberal Party representatives since 1986, and Labor has historically only done well around Labrador and Coolangatta.

The last was the 11th Party Congress in April 1986.

When the Democratic Progressive Party was established in 1986, President Chiang decided against dissolving the group or persecuting its leaders, but its candidates officially ran in elections as independents in the Tangwai movement.

* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

* 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

Between 1980 to 1986, Sakharov was kept under tight Soviet police surveillance.

The dramatic drop of the price of oil in 1985 and 1986, and consequent lack of foreign exchange reserves in following years to purchase grain profoundly influenced actions of the Soviet leadership.

Also, the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 added motive force to Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, which eventually spiraled out of control and caused the Soviet system to collapse.

By the time Gorbachev ushered in the process that would lead to the dismantling of the Soviet administrative command economy through his programs of glasnost ( political openness ), uskoreniye ( speed-up of economic development ) and perestroika ( political and economic restructuring ) announced in 1986, the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy.

Moreover, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and the mishandling of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which Gorbachev tried to cover up, further damaged the credibility of the Soviet government at a time when dissatisfaction was increasing.

* 1986 – The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft.

* 1986 – The Soviet liner runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

* Finland's Relations with the Soviet Union, 1940 – 1986 by Peter Botticelli

However, activists remembered the messy crash of the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite in Canada in 1978, and the 1986 Challenger accident had raised public awareness of the possibility of explosive spacecraft failures.

* John Anthony Walker ( born 1937 ), American communications specialist convicted in 1986 of spying for the Soviet Union

Formally neutral and reluctant to become involved with the great powers except as a last resort, Kuwait turned to the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain for naval protection of its tanker fleet after twenty-one ships were attacked in the gulf since late 1986.

* Urban, Michael E. " From Chernenko to Gorbachev: A Repolitization of Official Soviet Discourse ," Soviet Union / Union Soviétique, 13, No. 2, 1986, 131 – 61.

However, the equipment – which was mainly Soviet weaponry from the 1960s and 1970s – was outdated and it proved inefficient during the 1986 bombing of Libya by the US Air Force.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was able to get Karmal to step down as PDPA General Secretary in 1986, and replace him with Najibullah.

* 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.

He was later quoted as saying that he had the idea of the attempt to reach Moscow even before the departure, and he saw the trip to Iceland ( where he visited Hofdi House, the site of unsuccessful talks between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1986 ) as a way to test his piloting skills.

Kirkpatrick published an article called The Myth of Moral Equivalence in 1986, in which sharply criticized those who she alleged were claiming that there was " no moral difference " between the Soviet Union and democratic states.