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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Gorbachev"”.
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Gorbachev, the Generals and the "Turn to the Right"
… turn taken by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in late 1990, early 1991. The signs of this move include: the repression in the Baltics, Foreign Minister Schevardnadze's resignation, the removal of other reformist leaders from Gorbachev's retinue, and the growth of military influence. …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… study discovering the personality of Mikhail Gorbachev as a leader and his role in the peaceful solution of the Cold War. It shows how particular social and political-economic backgrounds shaped certain features of his character, and how those features influenced his political decisions later …
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The evolution of Soviet military and civilian threat assessment in the Gorbachev era : fragmentation and competition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1991.
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Spontaneity by command: Soviet state-society relations under Gorbachev and the emergence of the Russian environmental movement
The reform process begun by Gorbachev in 1985 and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union present us with intriguing analytical challenges. A widely accepted explanation for the course of events which unfolded under Gorbachev stresses the central role that a modern and increasingly restive …
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Soviet religion policy through religious dissidents from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev : a comparative study of Aida Skripnikova and Valeri Barinov.
… leadership from Leonid Brezhnev to Mikhail Gorbachev. By examining Skripnikova's and Barinov's lives and trials, an understanding, and perhaps even a pattern of liberalization, can be seen in the religion policy of the Soviet Union from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
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RUSSIA IN TRANSITION: A POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE DISOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, EVOLUTION OF CAPITALIST REFORM AND THE CREATION OF PUTINISM, 1985-2015
… practices. Analysis begins with Mikhail Gorbachev’s ‘moral position’ as the basis of the Gorbachev reforms and the conceptual introduction of democratic and market mechanics, followed by the rejection of the Soviet system and the mixed legacy of shock therapy under Boris Yeltsin, …
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The Medvedev years : an examination of the external forces & internal dynamics affecting the Kremlin's foreign policy decisions
… foreign policy issues. The legacies of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are traced from the Soviet democratization during the 1980’s and the constitutional empowerment of the Russian presidency during the 1990’s. These two coexistent forces of empowering the average citizen in a country in …
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The European Community’s Relations with the Soviet Union (1973-1991)
… EC-USSR relations to be put on hold. When Gorbachev came to power, his policies changed the decade-old opposition from Moscow to the EC, and by the late 1980s, an EC-USSR trade deal had been signed. In the final years of the USSR, Brussels granted Gorbachev financial aid, hoping it would …
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Composing the Sacred in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: History and Christianity in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir
… years, 1985, the same year that Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of Soviet glasnost, came to power, and the year Schnittke suffered from the first of five strokes. The Concerto is scored for a cappella mixed chorus, and its text is the work of the tenth-century Armenian monk and poet, …
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The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change
… shortages of food and consumer goods. Mikhail Gorbachev tried to alleviate these problems, but his efforts resulted instead in Russia's second hyperinflation (1992-1993).</p>
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Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics
This dissertation studies Gorbachev’s policies vis a vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics, namely, the Kremlin’s gradual retreat and systematic loosening of Soviet control over these regions. According to the theoretical tradition of historical institutionalism, the study explains …
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The long-delayed repatriation of the Sakhalin Koreans: Cold war challenges and resolutions, 1945-1992
… introduced by the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in mid-1980s. Nordpolitik (German translation for “Northern Policy”) was South Korea’s foreign policy introduced by the President Roh Tae Woo in 1988 with efforts to reconcile and normalize relations with “northern countries” including the …
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
Characterized by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as a “bleeding wound,” the Soviet-Afghan War left a broad imprint on the domestic front during the Soviet Union’s transition from stagnation to dissolution. From the onset of war on 25 December 1979 to the 40th Army’s withdrawal on 15 February …
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Media reform and democratization in post-Mao China : a television case study
… communist states, particularly those under the Gorbachev-style reform programme. The main characteristic of the Chinese case is that the growth of the industry and the reform of the media institutions have spontaneously become a twofold theme governing the whole process of post-Mao media …
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Soviet-American Relations during the Cold War: What Policies and Circumstances Conspired to Unravel the Soviet Empire?
… finally brought to power a reformer – Mikhail Gorbachev, whose appeals for glasnost and institution of perestroika divulged the economic, imperial and political decay of the Soviet system that reformers and even some remaining Bolsheviks in the communist party were only too eager to jettison. …
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Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia
… profiles 3) censorship in the media: Gorbachev and Yeltsin 4) censorship in the media: Putin (including the rise of fake news) The sections are supported by a literature review of the politics and policies of (mainly) post-Soviet Russia and their impact on journalism. Through this …
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A Chinese exploration of Sino-Soviet relations since the death of Stalin, 1953-1989.
… change in its attitude to the Soviet Union. With Gorbachev's succession in the Soviet Union in 1985 there were corresponding changes, making an eventual rapprochement possible. The evolution of Soviet policy towards China began on 24 March 1982 when Brezhnev made his speech in Tashkent, developed …
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