The Fall of the USSR, Pt I
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s was one of the most significant geopolitical events since World War II, driven not by war or mass uprising but by internal reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev. His policies of perestroika (restructuring) and *glasnost
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