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Gorbachev’s reforms opened the door to Soviet collapse

The Soviet Union’s sudden collapse shocked the world because few expected one of the most powerful empires on Earth to ...
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What happened to the Eastern Bloc after Soviet collapse?

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace the transition from communist rule to democracy and market economies, ...
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Hardline coup set the stage for Soviet collapse 30 years ago

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — The world held its breath 30 ...
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Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. Yegor K. Ligachev. Kremlin watchers ...