Gorbachev had a chance to address Katyn during a July 1988 state visit to Warsaw, but dodged the issue. |
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Gorbachev understood the horror of nuclear weapons, and was resolved not to use them. |
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In his second, he sought an accommodation with Moscow, even coming close to agreeing total nuclear disarmament with Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Mr Gorbachev took several questions from the floor, before being bustled off in a people carrier to meet the Earl of Harewood for dinner. |
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In 1990, the Supreme Soviet elected Gorbachev as the country's president for a term of five years. |
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Anyway, the Pope was one of many people who played a role in the collapse of Sovietism, from Gorbachev to Reagan. |
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Gorbachev had hoped to achieve a restructuring of Soviet society and especially of the communist party. |
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Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted. |
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In one dramatic gesture, Gorbachev broke with the policies of the Brezhnev era and unleashed a new program of glasnost. |
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Gorbachev, at this time, was moving away from conservatism back to policies more palatable to the democrats. |
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Most troubling for Gorbachev was the choice of Boris Yeltsin in May 1990 as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic. |
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But he occasionally re-emphasised the anti-Communist rhetoric, as if to remind Gorbachev that he needed to continue on the path to reform. |
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But Gorbachev too was influenced by Western disarmament groups, and even initiated a nuclear testing moratorium at their suggestion. |
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If there's anything that Reagan should be honoured for it was his preparedness to welcome the initiative offered by Mikhail Gorbachev to declare a Cold War truce. |
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And a grey communist apparatchik called Mikhail Gorbachev dismantle a huge empire without a drop of blood being shed. |
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He saw it so whole and perfect that Gorbachev, three years later, was powerless to convince him that the S. D. I. would militarize space. |
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And unlike Mr. Gorbachev, he was willing to say this openly and without equivocation. |
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Responsibility for the budget deficit rested fairly and squarely on the shoulders of the Gorbachev leadership. |
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It is not sufficient for Mr. Gorbachev to speak of a Common Euro-pean Home as if it were only a matter of physical architecture. |
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Gorbachev stonewalled, claiming that he was not aware of any such donation. |
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Gorbachev begins by tracing the terrain already traversed by the policy of perestroika and indicating how the new policy is destined to unfold. |
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Gorbachev is neither an unreconstructed Communist fundamentalist nor a Western-style pragmatic politician. |
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The Soviet economy has performed disastrously and the pressures on Mr Gorbachev are formidable. |
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Gorbachev feigned ignorance, but it was enough to prevent any further donations. |
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In other words, he would be no Gorbachev. But Mr Xi's talk of a dream will always run the risk of sharpening appetites for change. |
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Following the failed August 1991 putsch by the marginalized cabinet, President Gorbachev dismissed his government and abolished the Supreme Soviet. |
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To be present at that first meeting between Margaret and Gorbachev was an extraordinary experience. |
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It later transpired that a month before the Chequers meeting, Gorbachev had himself signed the papers authorising the donation. |
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For a time Gorbachev was able to occupy the middle ground between conservative and liberal forces and to play one off against the other. |
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Having visited Gorbachev beforehand the USA President had the conversation with him concerning the visit to Ukraine. |
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Even Yeltsin's drive to create a Russian presidency in 1991 envisioned using the new office not to displace the Soviet president but to force Gorbachev to follow his lead. |
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Gorbachev blamed himself for being too concerned about playing by democratic rules and not simply ridding the party of forces opposed to his reforms when he had a chance. |
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Of course, in Russia at that time you had just the beginning of Gorbachev, and glasnost and perestroika. |
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Still more excitingly for Cohen, glasnost included a Bukharin revival, with major support from Gorbachev himself. |
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But then again, Gorbachev didn't strike most people as Gorbachev for a good long time, if you follow my drift. |
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And in so doing, he helped Gorbachev overcome domestic resistance and build momentum for further reform. |
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By jettisoning the aggressive rhetoric and cutting U.S. nuclear stockpiles, Reagan helped Gorbachev win at home. |
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By helping show Gorbachev that he could safely release Eastern Europe, Reagan helped end the Cold War. |
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And Gorbachev said, it's a deal, or however he would say that in Russian. |
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It was only under Gorbachev and his perestroika, as the Berlin Wall began to crumble, that the official line crumbled as well. |
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Mr Gorbachev, ducking, weaving and waffling at the top, played a part. |
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From your articles it would seem that the fall was inevitable, and the hero of the hour was Mikhail Gorbachev, simply because he did not send in troops to bayonet Berliners. |
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Initially, Gorbachev was apparently astute enough to proceed with care and to build his support so as not to alienate the existing institutions of power or arouse the hostility of the population. |
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Not having large-scale management experience, he has greater chances to disorganize America, to destabilize America, out of the very best intentions, as Gorbachev once did. |
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Seeking to create a more open and prosperous Soviet Union through glasnost and perestroika, Gorbachev ended up unleashing forces that swept away the country he had sought to preserve and himself from power. |
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This is not a pipe dream, as the perestroika guy, Gorbachev, said. |
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But they neither anticipated nor desired the dismembering of the Soviet Union. It was this political class of intelligentsia that prepared for perestroika and became the main support base for Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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These films helped solidify his father's personality cult and demonstrated that Kim Il Sung's successor, unlike Deng Xiaoping in China or Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, would avoid any iconoclastic reforms. |
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The third is the possibility of a Gorbachev figure emerging from within the clerical establishment to open up the deadening political and economic system. |
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Having come to power in the wake of the Rose Revolution that put an end to the reign of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mikhail Gorbachev, Edward Shevardnadze, Mr. Saakashvili promised openness and reforms. |
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But even Gorbachev shrinks from contemplating a dismemberment of his Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, despite the fact that Russia shorn of its dependent vassal-states would still be a world power. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev – he who gave Thatcher her Iron Lady moniker – was pressing negotiations to reduce the number of nuclear missiles menacing the world. |
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Gorbachev had embarked on his effort to reform the sclerotic Soviet state and concluded that the wiser option was to continue cultivating the British prime minister for the sake of relations between the two countries. |
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There's a Russian joke about a number of Presidents and Soviet leaders travelling by train, and the punchline includes the very words glasnost and Gorbachev. |
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A group of Russian MPs have formally requested prosecutors to investigate former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for treason over the breakup of the Soviet Union, a lawmaker said on Thursday. |
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Similarly, while the central government, and especially Gorbachev, appeared impotent to affect the actions of the republic governments, it could not be said that this was a power deflation. |
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A bookbindery whose clients have included Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev has been forced by a rent increase to move from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Gravesend, Brooklyn. |
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Since the August coup attempt, the principal effort to lay a foundation for shaping a new union has been a plan for economic union drafted by Grigory Yavlinsky, a key aide to Yeltsin and Gorbachev. |
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The peaceful revolution of the East German people during September and October 1989 was made possible by the Gorbachev era of perestroika. |
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Here Gorbachev appears as a late arrival among the modern critics of statism in the contemporary world, definitely a disciple of the early rather than the later Marx. |
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On 30 March 2011, she sang at a gala celebrating the 80th birthday of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Two decades ago the Soviet empire in Central and Eastern Europe dissolved as people took to the streets and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev disavowed the use of force to rein in the protests. |
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Can all the leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, such as Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, be tarred with the same brush? |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, credited the Polish pope with hastening the fall of Communism in Europe. |
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Thatcher wanted to know whether Gorbachev had approved the donation, since the Soviet miners would have needed government permission to convert roubles into foreign currency. |
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In the second half of the 1980s, newly appointed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the perestroika and glasnost reforms. |
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It was only, after all, 15 years ago that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party, and an awful lot has happened in those 15 years. |
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When the Berlin Wall came down, and Soviet President Gorbachev was briefly able to break the grip of Cold War security thinking, a window of opportunity opened to end the nuclear nightmare. |
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Gorbachev also forswore the Soviet Union's hegemony over the Eastern Bloc. |
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During the Gorbachev era Hungary led the movement to dissolve the Warsaw Pact and steadily moved toward multiparty democracy and a market-oriented democracy. |
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I am reading a book about Chernobyl and was interested to see that the accident prompted Gorbachev and Reagan to focus on the urgent need to work for peace. |
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I say nearly four years because that was when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR, so I was asked to do a few months' temporary service in Moscow, which I greatly enjoyed. |
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She has served on numerous boards of environmental groups and advisory bodies to universities and governments in Canada, including the Earth Charter Commission, co-chaired by Maurice Strong and Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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A critical factor was Thatcher's idea that Mikhail Gorbachev was the key to the solution. |
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Thatcher was one of the first Western leaders to respond warmly to reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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She went on a state visit to the Soviet Union in 1984 and met with Gorbachev and Nikolai Ryzhkov, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. |
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In 1988, the perestroika policy of Mikhail Gorbachev started allowing privatization of centrally planned economy. |
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Gorbachev meanwhile refused to use Soviet troops to bolster the faltering Warsaw Pact regimes as had occurred in the past. |
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These issues prompted Gorbachev to investigate measures to revive the ailing state. |
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Talks went well until the focus shifted to Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, which Gorbachev wanted eliminated. |
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Over the years Chinmoy had ongoing friendships with Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Desmond Tutu. |
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Gorbachev made significant changes in the economy and party leadership, called perestroika. |
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On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as the President of the USSR, declaring the office extinct. |
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In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform and revitalize the economy with his program of perestroika. |
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Gorbachev rejected the Brezhnev Doctrine, which held that Moscow would intervene if socialism were threatened in any state. |
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In 1991 Moscow was the scene of a coup attempt by conservative communists opposed to the liberal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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He remained more Soviet than his parents and often accused Gorbachev of having destroyed the Soviet Union on behalf of US intelligence. |
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In it, Gorbachev attempts to explain the continuity of perestroika with Marxism and Leninism, as well as to rehabilitate or revivify these ideologies. |
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As far as the Communist Party itself is concerned, Gorbachev describes it as being called upon to be society's vanguard, but he seems pessimistic about its being able to rise to the occasion. |
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Even though Presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, thousands of nuclear weapons remain on hair-trigger alert. |
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Although his essay is sprinkled with references to both Marx and Lenin, Gorbachev has abandoned the major tenets of these two forebears as well as their outlooks on the world. |
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From a Western point of view, this break from Leninism is easily seen as revolutionary-considering the long period of ideological continuity which Gorbachev is now deliberately rupturing. |
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These prove his prescience, but it would have been better just to have summarised them. The bulk of the book is a necessary reminder of what Mr Gorbachev and perestroika achieved even if inadvertently. |
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In his comments, Gorbachev pointed out that the subject of the Soviet Union has quietly passed from the purview of political scientists into the realm of archeology. |
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In the 1980s the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Solidarity movement in Poland accelerated the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the end of the Cold War. |
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In foreign policy, she fought a war against Argentina and played a key role with US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in ending the Cold War. |
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In August 1991, a faction among the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union attempted a coup to remove Mikhail Gorbachev and to restore the Communist party's power. |
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As it got closer to the goal of political integration and a peaceful and united Europe, what Mikhail Gorbachev described as a Common European Home. |
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Under Gorbachev, the role of the Communist Party in governing the state was removed from the constitution, causing a surge of severe political instability to set in. |
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After finishing his syntopical reading of the leaders' speeches, he wrote an essay comparing the language used by Reagan, Carter, Gorbachev, and Qaddafi. |
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In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and by 1990 Gorbachev consented to German reunification, the only alternative being a Tiananmen scenario. |
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The resignation surprised Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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But by 1989 even Mikhail Gorbachev had basically given up the ghost of Communism, and after Hall badmouthed him the Soviet leader cut off the American leader's allowance. |
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This act increased support for military deployment, overseen by Reagan, which stood in place until the later accords between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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The clock is ticking for Mikhail Gorbachev too. Of all the failures of political and economic theory in this century, the Soviet failure is the most spectacular. |
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