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...

Writing climate item

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. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 February 2008
was expelled from the Soviet Union; treason charges followed.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 February 2008
Francis, Damien. “Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89”. Guardian Weekly, 8 Aug. 2008, p. 11.
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10 December 1984: Mikhail Gorbachev, at this point second in...

National or international item

10 December 1984

Mikhail Gorbachev , at this point second in command in the Soviet Union, enunciated his doctrine of glasnost, or openness.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

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

National or international item

11 March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, becoming leader of the Soviet Union.
“1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader”. BBC News: On This Day, 11 Mar. 1985.

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

National or international item

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.
“Library of Congress Country Studies”. Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, 2003.

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

National or international item

19 August 1991

A coup in the Soviet Union overthrew the Communist government; this led to the crumbling of the Soviet empire.
Crystal, David. “Edit It Again, Sam”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 June 2000– 2024, pp. 82-3.
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“The Soviet Era”. Geographia: Europe: Russia: History.
Johnson, Richard William. “Living on the Edge”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 9, 28 Apr. 2011, pp. 32-3.
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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.