"But if I had had no trust in the people, perestroika would have never begun," he said. The full interview with the USSR’s first and last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, dedicated to his 90th ...

play Perestroika and glasnost: Gorbachev's reforms Gorbachev's two main reform ideas are perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). Gorbachev announces reform plans to increase liberty ...

Chernenko was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev ... As he seeks to implement his reactionary perestroika, Gorbachev implicitly concedes the failure of all the economic premises upon which Stalinism ...

Perestroika, of course ... and Vitaly Mansky and also the Theater of Nations’ stage production called Gorbachev. Have you seen them? How does it feel to be in focus as a literary or film ...

The last president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and father of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, died Tuesday in Moscow at the age of 91. “This afternoon, after a long and ...

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When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March ... Western nations were enthralled by his efforts to promote perestroika in the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union ruled by the Communist ...

Eduard Shevardnadze, who has died aged 86, was Mikhail Gorbachev's foreign ... He probably understood far earlier than Gorbachev that perestroika, once unleashed, could not be used merely to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...

Mikhail Gorbachev’s push to improve health care in the Soviet Union has led the Soviets to the doorstep of a small firm in Falmouth, Mass. Called Associates on Cape Cod, the venture was founded in ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... and Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) introduced unprecedented freedoms of expression ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize ... to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or restructuring. In his memoirs, he said he had long been frustrated that in a country ...