Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. Gorbachev’s family was very poor and as a teenager, he contributed to his family’s income by driving tractors at the local machine station (Biography, 2015). Gorbachev’s young life and upbringing was that of a communist country. He graduated from high school with a silver medal in 1950. He then continued his academics at the Moscow University, which was the premier school in the Soviet Union…

Brezhnev was very different place than the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. While these leader faced similar problems, their methods of repairing the Soviet Union differed greatly. While Gorbachev was open to change Brezhnev was very conservative and unwilling to reform. Brezhnev remained in power for eighteen year, but its was Gorbachev that completely changed the landscape of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union under both Gorbachev and Brezhnev faced debilitating problems causing…

-The aftermath of the Cold War was a recent and a very important period of time in history for the development of the countries. In this period of time the political relationships of the countries in the world were not having their best confidence moment at all. A lot of spying was going on during those years. The two biggest powers( U.S.A and the Soviet Union) were having that information battle that we cannot know a lot more about it. The aftermath of this war determined the stability…

There is no way of telling where we would be had Nixon not created détente, been impeached over the Watergate scandal, had Gorbachev not risen to power or had Ronald Reagan not have been elected. It is impossible to tell. But we can explore their foreign policy decisions and their direct outcomes. With the Cold War, well into its second decade there was increased motive to dissolve tensions and increase trade with these two global powers. Nixon like very president before him wanted to avoid a…

Motive For Murder: Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev disagreed on many subjects. The most prominent of these disagreements is the rate at which they wanted social reform to occur. Gorbachev prefered a slower pace to his reform, easing into it carefully. Yeltsin however, was very much the opposite and this caused conflict between the politicians, “Yeltsin proved an able and determined reformer, but he estranged Gorbachev when he began criticizing the slow pace of reform at party meetings,…

played a large role in the Cold War and made many efforts to improve Soviet relations and attempt to cut Soviet control, which many may argue is a significant reason for the eventual collapse. I, however, believe that the last soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was the…

The fall of the Berlin Wall was a hallmark event that marked the end of the Cold War. Many Americans give credit to only U.S. President Ronald Regan for ending the Cold War, however, both Regan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev played key roles in ending the Cold War. Gorbachev was the fourth leader of the Soviet Union during Regan’s Presidency, before he assumed power in 1985 relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union were extremely tense. Just three years into Gorbachev’s rule the U.S. was…

The Soviet Union's continued push for rapid industrialization to meet the standards of the West not only caused an economic issue it had essentially was the change from Communism to the Western way of democracy. After the leadership of Stalin and Khrushchev, the Soviet Union became more conservative such as by moving common average people to higher jobs. By the mid-1980s, continued competition with the United States contributed to the falling of the Soviet’s economy. Forced industrialization…

Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union or the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev would take the head of the office in the Soviet Union. Reagan and Gorbachev had different yet similar milestones to which they would attain the highest offices of their country. Reagan would serve as Governor of California, become president of the Screen Actors Guild during the time of the “Red Scare” while Gorbachev would become a reginal agricultural administrator and a…

the Soviet Communism and way of life in many different ways. Essentially, the transformation of Soviet life after the Thaw can be said to have undergone three phases: introduction of reforms during Khrushchev’s era, the Brezhnev stagnation, and Gorbachev reforms that ultimately led to the Soviet Union dissolving in 1991. When Nikita Khrushchev rose to power, he made significant reforms including policies of peace between the Soviet and other nations and de-Stalinization (Hosking, 1993). The…