In August 1991, some hard-line communists attempted to stage a military coup in Moscow, arresting Gorbachev and holding him under house arrest …

Biography. Biography >> Cold War. Occupation: Leader of the Soviet Union. Born: March 2, 1931. Best known for: Bringing reform to the Soviet Union and helping to end the Cold War. Nickname: The Marked One. Biography: Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991.

Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, after the messy succession crisis that followed the death of Leonid Brezhnev. From the start, Gorbachev was different from previous Soviet leaders.

01/04/2009 · By the time Mr Gorbachev visited London in April 1989, the shine was coming off his leadership. In Moscow's streets, people were grumbling that …

27/03/2020 · Gorbachev tried a new tactic – instead of targeting SDI, he would encourage Reagan to commit to disarmament, reducing spending on the military and weapons and continue to improve relations. This time there was success. Both parties signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty. The INF Treaty outlined that all land-based missiles with a range of …

01/02/1989 · Gorbachev has presented the new thinking as a long-term approach that not only meets Soviet interests, but also as an approach that responds to changes in the nature of international relations. There is, however, opposition to the new thinking in the Soviet Union, on the grounds that it embodies too romantic a view of the world and that it has resulted in too …

26/07/2018 · Gorbachev was the youngest member of the Politburo upon assuming the position, and he brought with him a fresh approach to many issues, including nuclear diplomacy. Up to this point, the Soviet military had focused on preparing to win a hypothetical nuclear war with a massive accumulation of nuclear arms (Rhodes 189).

Gorbachev has made the call for ‘new thinking’ the centrepiece of his foreign policy programme. The phrase ‘new thinking’ (novoe myshlenie? occupies the same exalted place in his discussion of international politics that perestroik? and glasnos? have assumed in his domestic policy. Over and over again, he has stressed the necessity of discarding old approaches in favour of new …

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev repudiated the doctrine in the late 1980s, as the Kremlin accepted the peaceful overthrow of communist rule in all its satellite countries in Eastern Europe. [2] The policy was first and most clearly outlined by Sergei Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article entitled "Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries". [3]