Mikhail Gorbachev

leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, from the bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January until the American-led liberation of Kuwait on 28 February.

process leading to the late-1991 breakup of the USSR

Perestroika ( ; ) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his ("transparency") policy reform. literally means "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the political economy of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.

Glasnost ( ; , ) is a concept relating to openness and transparency. It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissibility of hushing up problems. In Russian, the word glasnost has long been used to mean 'openness' and 'transparency'. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union within the framework of perestroika, and the word came to be used in English in the latter meaning.

arms control agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union

Head of State of the Soviet Union between 1990 and 1991

1991 treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the reduction of strategic offensive arms

draft treaty of 1991

Soviet foreign policy of allowing neighboring Warsaw Pact states to determine their own internal affairs

meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the end of the Cold War

environmental organization

death and funeral proceedings of Mikhail Gorbachev

Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer (1930-1997)

legislative election in the Soviet Union

Final Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Uskorenie (; literally meaning acceleration) was a slogan and a policy announced by Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 20 April 1985 at a Soviet Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of political, social and economic development of the Soviet Union. It was the first slogan of a set of reforms that also included (restructuring), (transparency), new political thinking, and (democratization).

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meeting of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

political party in Russia

late 1980s foreign policy philosophy of the Soviet Union

1970s–1989 corruption scandal in Soviet Uzbekistan

political party in Russia

foundation named after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

1989 letter from Iran's ruler to the leader of the Soviet Union

meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in Helsinki on 9 September 1990

Russian politician

1988 conference

International conference

1987 political slogan from Mikhail Gorbachev

Russian political party

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