Mikhail Gorbachev

In a treasury of the world history, there are many prominent political leaders, who contributed significantly or changed the world. Every day we encounter names of those who preserved or betrayed nations. One of most widely discussed is notorious historical leader, Joseph Stalin, Russian soviet politician. Although Stalin’s contribution to industrialization of Soviet Union was immense, usually the name of this person elicits associations with war, hunger, and tyranny. In memories of millions of…

National Security is a major issue in American Politics. Throughout the decades the issues that threaten national security have changed. In the 1940s, the national security policies are based more on programs rather than the military. However by 2001, the U.S. national security strategies have become more militaristic in nature. In March 1947, Harry S. Truman announced to Congress the beginning of what would be later called the Truman Doctrine. In it essence, the Truman Doctrine was an American…

We are all aware of what lengths some nations will go to with their propaganda to persuade their nation to believe what they want them to believe. Communism in the Soviet Union was based extremely upon the Marxism- Leninism theory. Marxism- Leninism is an ideology which combines Marxism and Leninism. Marxism is concepts theorized by Karl Marx. Leninism is theoretical expansions of Marxism by Vladimir Lenin. During the time in which communism started in Soviet Russia, what used to be…

Dealing with the Kremlin 1. Importance The Russian Federation is playing a game of risk, showing an aggressive hand just enough to provoke condemnation, but slight enough to avoid another international arms race- as of yet. Succeeding the Soviet Union as a permanent member of the U.N Security Council, the latter half of our 21st century has seen the Kremlin all but reject the principles of allegiance and armistice the United Nations was fashioned to uphold. Deep-seated into the fifteenth year…

. The reports about what happened on June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square vary so greatly that it makes it nearly impossible to know what actually happened. It is clear that the writers all had different perceptions of the events. I know my perceptions would have influenced the way I saw the events, as well. In turn, it would have affected the way I wrote about the events that took place. One of the things that would color my perspective and affect the way I would write about the events that…

like Grenada and El Salvador. While Reagan fought against communism in the countries in Central America, the Soviet Union began to disintegrate. In 1985, in a response to economic problems and a growing political ferment in the USSR, Premier Mikhail Gorbachev took office. Shortly after taking office, he introduced two new policies that helped to redefine the relationship that Russia had with the rest of the world. The influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe began to wane. Four years…

still caused tension, in fact there was a ‘battle’ to gain more territory which can be explained by the realist theory of the balance of power. Nearer the end of the Cold War, the communist ideology of the USSR was proven to be a weakness when Mikhail Gorbachev came into power and introduced two important policies: perestroika and glasnost. These allowed the citizens of the USSR to view the ‘outside world’ which in turn caused the downfall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s following the…

visit to Romania in 1969. The revival of Romanian national discourse attempted to eradicate the atrocities perpetrated by the Romanians during the Holocaust, even though ethnic cleansing was still being practiced. The appearance of reformist Mikhail Gorbachev in1985 spelt the end of Communism…

fighting against an Islamic state. Thousands came from many countries to volunteer as members of the Mujadideen. Their efforts were backed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and China, in addition to the United States. By 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev decided to withdraw troops due to their high number of causalities and the sky-rocketing cost of the war (history.com,…

During this war, “the world underwent what at the time and afterwards has been seen as ‘paradigm change’” (Dedring). The main theme of the war was: resolving violent conflicts by peaceful means. In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev took the reins of power in the Soviet Union and fought for the end of communism, the end of global imperialism, the end of European conflict, and independence for Soviet republics. The end of the Cold War saw the liberation of all of Eastern…