On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...
On This Day, Feb. 7: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91
MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91
(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...
World Focus: Resetting the clock with Russia
Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader and father of Perestroika, has died at 91
The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.
Trump’s Orbital Missile Shield Could Aid His Nuclear Disarmament Foray
President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for reductions in atomic weapons arsenals across the great nuclear powers.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...
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Former U.S. Ambassador Sally Novetzke dies
Sally Novetzke of Cedar Rapids in December 2018 holds mementos of her time as U.S. ambassador to Malta and a book of photos ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia. Most people born in the 1980s and earlier remember that momentous day - when a communist ...