FROM KHRUSHCHEV TO GORBACHEV

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FROM KHRUSHCHEV TO GORBACHEV

• LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-82, ruled 1964-82)
• REVIVAL OF STALINISM
• THE PRAGUE SPRING
• SOVIET INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA (August 21,
  1968)
• ALEXANDER DUBCEK (1921-92)
• BREZHNEV DOCTRINE (1968)
• DISSIDENT MOVEMENT
• ANDREI SAKHAROV (1921-89)
• SOLZHENITSYNS EXPULSION FROM THE USSR (1974)
• THE AFGHAN WAR (December 26, 1979 February 15,
  1989)
• SAKHAROVS EXILE TO GORKY (1980)
• YURI ANDROPOV (1914-84, ruled 1982-84)
• CONSTANTINE CHERNENKO (1911-85, ruled 1984-85)
• DEEPENING OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
• 1928 (60.5 PERCENT OF OUTPUT WENT INTO CONSUMER
  GOODS)
• 1985 (25.2 PERCENT OF OUTPUT WENT INTO CONSUMER
  GOODS)

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (b. March 2, 1931)

• March 11, 1985 (GENERAL SECRETARY)
• REAGANS STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) OR
  SPACE-BASED ANTIMISSILE-DEFENSE SYSTEM (March 23,
  1983)
• April 23, 1985 (perestroika)
• October 11-12, 1986 (THE REYKJIAVIK SUMMIT)
• HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE

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GLASNOST

• SAKHAROV FREED FROM EXILE (December 19, 1986)
• SECOND DEATH OF STALIN
• UNREST IN THE BALTIC STATES (August 23, 1987)
• BORIS YELTSIN REMOVED FROM THE LEADERSHIP
  (November 11, 1987)
• WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN (February 15, 1989)
• THE FIRST CONGRESS OF PEOPLES DEPUTIES (May 25
  July 7, 1989)
• RISE OF NATIONALISM
• LITHUANIA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE (March 11, 1990)
• ESTONIA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE (March 30, 1990)
• LATVIA DECLARES INDEPENDENCE (May 14, 1990)
• January 1991 (CRACKDOWNS IN LITHUANIA AND LATVIA)

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EASTERN EUROPES REVOLUTIONS

• DEMOCRATIC PARLIAMENTARTY ELECTIONS IN POLAND
  (June 4, 1989)
• HUNGARY OPENS BORDER TO AUSTRIA (September 10,
  1989)
• PROMULGATION OF NON-COMMUNIST HUNGARY (October
  23, 1989)
• FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL (November 9, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA (November 10, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN CZHECHOSLOVAKIA (November 24, 1989)
  
• GORBACHEV AND GEORGE BUSH DECLARE THE COLD WAR
  ENDED (December 2, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN ROMANIA (December 22, 1989)