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Reformist Soviet policies introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s, including glasnost and perestroika, which unintentionally undermined Communist Party control.
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...
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...