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Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
Western leaders made verbal assurances in 1990 focused on Germany’s reunification, including James Baker’s line that “NATO’s jurisdiction… would not move one inch eastward,” but no legally binding, wr...
On 4 June 1989 (commonly cited as "6/4"), Chinese troops and armoured units moved into Beijing to clear weeks‑long pro‑democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square, resulting in a violent crackdown ...
Available sources show Russia has never formally completed a standard NATO accession application as a member state, though Soviet and post‑Soviet leaders at times floated the idea of joining or sought...
Communism as a governing system has seen mixed short- and medium-term outcomes but has repeatedly faced systemic crises and regime collapse in many 20th‑century examples; major factors cited in the li...
and Western records from the withdrawal era converge on roughly 13,000–15,000 for the 1979–1989 , but historians and some later studies propose higher tallies—producing a contested range from about 13...
Accusations that a public figure is the Antichrist have recurred across two millennia, applied to popes, emperors, revolutionaries, dictators and modern politicians as a way to name ultimate evil in c...
Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989 after a cascade of mass protests, negotiated transfers of power, and political openings that began in Poland and spread across the region; key pro...
Ronald Reagan combined a regimen of military and economic pressure with high‑profile rhetoric and later pragmatic diplomacy; historians credit him with shaping the conditions that hastened the Cold Wa...
As of 2025, most mainstream listings identify five countries that constitutionally remain one‑party, Marxist‑Leninist or socialist states commonly described as “communist”: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos ...
The fall of 20th‑century communist regimes resulted from a complex interplay of , not a single cause. Contemporary analyses emphasize that reformist Soviet policies under Mikhail Gorbachev (glasnost a...
Perestroika sought to rescue and modernize Soviet socialism by introducing decentralization, market-like mechanisms and political openness, but by 1991 it had both undermined core socialist institutio...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has a documented and continuing mission presence connected to Russia: mission calls to Russia date to the 1840s, the first recorded baptisms in th...
Available reporting shows Jeffrey Sachs has publicly engaged with Russian officials and Russian-hosted forums—he spoke at the UN Security Council at Russia’s invitation in 2023 and has participated in...
Between 1950 and 1991 Soviet living standards and consumer-goods availability shifted from measurable postwar improvements through a long period of stagnation and chronic shortages to a turbulent coll...
’s “New World Order” language came in a September 11, 1990 address to about the i invasion of , where he framed a post– opportunity for collective security and cooperation and used the phrase to justi...
The phrase "" is a polyglot term that means different things to different audiences: a descriptive label for shifts in international governance , a byword for an alleged secret global cabal in , and a...
The phrase that “The Council of the People’s Deputies some of the Empire’s harsh restrictions, such as on freedom of expression” conflates actions by different bodies in different moments; contemporar...
The Soviet Union conducted a series of direct military operations, occupations and covert interventions across Eurasia and beyond during the 20th century, ranging from Red Army advances in the civil-w...
The collapse of the Soviet Union was not the product of a single actor but of an interaction between Mikhail Gorbachev’s reformist policies that destabilized central Communist control and Boris Yeltsi...
The Americans treats Mikhail Gorbachev less as a developed onscreen character and more as a historical force whose glasnost and perestroika catalyze late-series plotlines: his reforms create internal ...