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31 sie 2022 · Gorbachev made three contributions that were fundamental to ending the Cold War. The first was to remove its ideological foundations.
Although Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika accelerated the collapse by provoking public discontent and transforming communism, the fundamental causes were the Soviet economic system's inefficiencies and the erosion of its soft power.
31 sie 2022 · Mikhail Gorbachev will be remembered in the West for laying the basis for more constructive relations to ease the end of the Cold War, but vilified in Russia for speeding the Soviet Union’s...
30 paź 2017 · Ending the Cold War required establishing a new consensus, which, as the books by Wilson, Service and Domber show, was far from straightforward. Eastern European socialist leaders had had agency throughout the Cold War, and at the end of it some used it to try to stop Gorbachev's reform.
At a November 2014 event marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warned that the ongoing war in Donbas had brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War, and he accused Western powers, particularly the US, of adopting an attitude of "triumphalism" towards Russia.
26 sie 2024 · Mikhail Gorbachev played a key role in ending the Soviet Union’s post-World War II domination of eastern Europe. Gorbachev helped take down the long-standing Iron Curtain separating Eastern communist states and Western noncommunist states.
Unlike their post World War II predecessors who effaced their historic enemy by anchoring post-war Germany in Western institutions, world leaders in 1990 (and again, later in the decade) failed to do anything similar for the post-communist Soviet Union (or for post-Soviet Russia after 1991).
