INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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Saddam Hussein
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Josef Stalin
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George W. Bush
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country’s dissolution in 1991.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the late 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev implemented a series of changes in his country’s social, economic and foreign policies designed to bolster the domestic standard of living and usher in a new era of dtente with the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gorbachev brought perestroika to the Soviet Union’s foreign economic sector with measures that Soviet economists considered bold at that time. His program virtually eliminated the monopoly that the Ministry of Foreign Trade had once held on most trade operations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike previous Soviet leaders, Gorbachev did not intervene when popular protest movements swept across the Communist countries of Eastern Europe in 1989 and the Berlin Wall fell.