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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...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Dance60/Dreamstime.com; © Konstantin Gushcha/Dreamstime.com
Mikhail Gorbachev: From farmer to statesman
Overview of Mikhail Gorbachev, including a discussion of his policy of perestroika.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum/National Archives and Records Administration

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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
Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987.
Vladimir Vyatkin/RIA Novosti Archive; image no. 850809 (CC BY-SA 3.)
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Yeltsin, Boris
Boris Yeltsin, 1990.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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
Boris Yeltsin, 1991.
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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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