General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Gorbachev and the fall of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was an empire centered in Moscow, Russia. The Soviet Union consisted of more than just Russia, it consisted of fifteen sovereign republics, and its formal title was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In addition to the 15 sovereign republics that comprised the Soviet Union after World War II there was also the Soviet Outer Empire. The Soviet Union Outer Empire was commonly referred to as the Soviet Bloc, which consisted of East Germany

biography of Mikhail Gorbachev and how he reformed Soviet Union. The paper also discusses the reasons why Mikhail Gorbachev reformed Soviet Union. The questions to be answered are, what are the policies implemented by Gorbachev, what are the effects of such policies, and was the collapse of the Soviet Union an achievement or Gorbachev failure? Mikhail Gorbachev was a politician who served as the last General Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. He was born in Privolnoye

collective farm. Mikhail experienced the famous Soviet famine of 1932–1933. He recalled in a memoir that "In that terrible year (1933) nearly half the population of my native

Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. In 1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. He resigned in 1991, and has since founded the Gorbachev Foundation and remains active in social and political causes. EARLY LIFE Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to a Russian-Ukrainian family in

history of the Soviet Union begins with the Russian Revolution of 1917. In February of that year the wartime decay of Russia’s economy and morale triggered a spontaneous popular uprising in Petrograd. This led to the imperial government of Czar Nicholas II being overthrown. After the formation of a provisional government, workers councils, known as soviets, began to sprout up throughout the country to protect the rights of the working class. This allowed the Bolsheviks (Communists) to arouse widespread

the last Head of State, and the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union and also the final Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Gorbachev tried to introduce new economic, social and political reforms to the Soviet Union. These reforms were very different to those current in place from the Communism ideals. Although Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t intend to cause the collapse the Soviet Union, the attempts he made to strengthen and modernise the Soviet Union ultimately lead to its downfall. As

Russia had many complications before Mikhail Gorbachev came into power for the Soviet Union. During 1939 through 1945, Russian took part in World War II heavily and were led by Dictator Joseph Stalin. Following the war, Russia was in a nuclear arms race with America, riding on everyone’s fear of there being a World War III and a nuclear war. Post World War II Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union had very poor living conditions due to the mass of poverty. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis took

leader of the Soviet Union? It is undeniable that Stalin had a profound impact on the Soviet Union following Lenin’s death. His rise to power within the Soviet Union has provided historians with a hotbed of political intrigue for many years. He was an opportunist, coming to dominance by manipulating party politics and influential figures in the politburo to eliminate his opposition by recognising and exploiting their weaknesses thus becoming the dominant leader of the Soviet Union. He was severely

Secret Speech The Source is an extract of a speech given by Nikita Khrushchev at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Union on February 25th 1956. Khrushchev served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the world's early space program, and for several relatively liberal

the World War II. The economies weakness of the country allows the United State to offer fund to support of preventing the expansion of communist ideology. In 1947, the United States launched the Marshall Plan's plan to help European countries recover the economy and strengthen democratic rule in the country. Marshall Plan was named in conjunction with the Secretary of State George Marshall and was largely established by State Department officials, particularly William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan