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Russian President Boris Yeltsin stands at a podium with microphones, smiling, in front of a U.S. flag during a news conference at the White House.
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How Mikhail Gorbachev helped end the Cold War and unite Europe
Learn how Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union unleashed forces that ended...
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Mikhail Gorbachev: From farmer to statesman
Overview of Mikhail Gorbachev, including a discussion of his policy of perestroika.
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Boris Yeltsin and the collapse of the Soviet Union
Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin (cener) on an armored vehicle in front of the White House...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–91
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Boris Yeltsin, 1990
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet politician Mikhail Gorbachev, 1991.
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collapse of the Soviet Union
Map of the Soviet Union and the independent countries that succeeded it.
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Boris Yeltsin, 1994
Russian President Boris Yeltsin at a news conference in the White House, Washington,...
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Baltic states
The Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States as it looked upon its creation in 1991.
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Russia
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