Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev

Standard Name: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

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Textual Features Bernice Rubens
The novel ends on Mikhail Gorbachev 's assertion of perestroika, when its protagonists are in their eighties. This new order, the second revolution of their lifetimes, sets them free to travel back to their village...

Timeline

13 February 1974: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970 Nobel Prize-winner...

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13 February 1974

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970 Nobel Prize-winner in Literature, who had more than once refused to surrender himself to state investigators)
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
13 February 2008
was expelled from the Soviet Union; treason charges followed.

10 December 1984: Mikhail Gorbachev, at this point second in...

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10 December 1984

Mikhail Gorbachev , at this point second in command in the Soviet Union, enunciated his doctrine of glasnost, or openness.

11 March 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of...

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11 March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, becoming leader of the Soviet Union.

January 1987: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (of...

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January 1987

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (of which Gorbachev was now the leader) formally enunciated his principle of perestroika, a complex recipe for modernising society and the economy.

19 August 1991: A coup in the Soviet Union overthrew the...

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19 August 1991

A coup in the Soviet Union overthrew the Communist government; this led to the crumbling of the Soviet empire.

Texts

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. “Foreword”. The cult of the individual, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, and Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. The cult of the individual. Guardian News and Media, 2007.