Gorbachev

saw it’s ending, which left only one dominate nation, United State of America. The arms race with the USA seemed to be too much for the USSR, as their economy fell into turmoil. A strong power in the world always needs a strong economy, however Gorbachev changed a strong economy into a staggering economy about to collapse. Another reason why westerners could see the collapse of the Soviet Union in the near future was because of the external factors that played in, for example the Reagan administration

Mikhail Gorbachev winning the Time magazine’s Man of the Year, and Man of the Decade. Mainly due to Time Magazine being an American magazine and tensions between America and Russia were still uneasy. However, Gorbachev completed great things in his time of presidency and even strengthened Russia’s relationship with America and other countries. It is fair to say that this was the man who deserved the Man of the Year, and the Man of the Decade award. Strengthening the Russian Economy Gorbachev was the

gradually changing from a Federalist government into a Socialist system as Mikhail Gorbachev became elected as the leader of the USSR after the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev policies was a shift of political, militarily, and social

and summits between the United States and the Soviet Union are discussed, including areas where negotiation failed as well as succeeded. It also analyzes the reasons for Reagan?s embrace of negotiations with the Soviets as well as the reasons for Gorbachev?s desire for internal reform and his openness to the West. This article is based on the scholarship of Thomas Maddux in the Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy (2002), and Thomas Lindenberger in Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction

The 1980’s were a dynamic time in the life cycle of the Cold War. The early portion of this decade, which saw massive shifts in the administrations of the United States and Soviet Union, maintained an atmosphere of suspicion, wariness, and skepticism. This theme of uncertainty and caution was the logical product of decades of both American and Soviet duplicity, confrontation, and militarization. Yet, despite this mistrust between the polar Cold War belligerents, and contrary to the early rhetoric

“One primary reason is that the trust created by hard work and mutual effort in ending the Cold War has collapsed and without such a trust the international relations in today’s globalized world are inconceivable”. (Gorbachev) As the last leader of Soviet Union Gorbachev gives us his point of view of what the end of the Cold War supposed to bring, it was just simple as we think a safer world order by building new European Security Institutions but he thinks that instead of this the West – particularly

peace. Although, Reagan's willingness to negotiate was a clear factor in ending the Cold War, his aggressive arms race may have done more to forestall peace than abet it. The ascendance of Mikhail Gorbachev to power, the stagnating economy of Russia, and the personal friendship forged between Gorbachev and Reagan were the clear factors that contributed to

the Revisionist and Gorbachev leadership theories. Second, this paper will look at the “Triumphalist” theory by the Realist school of historians who believe that Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies during the Cold War

going on. The Soviet government’s lies of economic success and superiority over the Western capitalist states had controlled the citizens of Russia to believe that the USSR’s Communist regime was growing for half a decade. It wasn’t until Mikhail Gorbachev that mocked previous leaders like Stalin and Brezhnev for being responsible for not improving the Soviet economy. Gorbachev’s reforms to modernize the USSR created more freedom and openness for Russians, but sprawled uprisings and revolutions in

are as synonymous with reform in Russian politics as they are the Communist party and Cold War, are Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev. Both, who were born peasants, rose up the social ladder to greatness one wrung at the time. While both were radical political and economic reformers who truly left their marks on history, their policies were antipodal at best. Gorbachev was the frigid water to Stalin’s roaring fire. Stalin’s goal was to modernize and militarize Russia, and also close it to the world