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Nikita Khrushchev
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Leader After Stalin
De-stalinization Freed Many Political Prisoners Destroyed Hungary Set up Warsaw Pact Try to build missiles in cuba |
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Successor of Krushchev
Supressed ppl who spoke out Invested in huge milt. build up |
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Nikhail Gorbachev
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1985 leader
Renounced Brezhnev Doctor. Signed arms control wiht USA Pulled Troops out of Afghan called for glasnot and perest. Shortages grew wors |
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Boris Yeltsin
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Critic of Gorbachev
More state run industries more collective farms economy hit rough patch |
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Chechnya
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place in caucasus moutains
home to ethnic and relgious |
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Vladimir Putin
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Ppl thought improve conditions
Took control of chechnya Thought going well and stuff |
