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The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2010). popular; Matlock, Jack F. Autopsy on an Empire (1995) online by US ambassador to Moscow; Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev : how the Cold War ended (2004) online; Powaski, Ronald E. The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1991 (1998) Romero ...
In the decades following the end of the Cold War, only five or six of the post-Soviet states are on a path to joining the wealthy capitalist states of the West, and most are falling behind, some to such an extent that over 50 years will be needed before they catch up to how they were before the end of communism.
Following the death of former president George H. W. Bush in 2018, a critical partner and friend of his time in office, Gorbachev stated that the work they had both accomplished led directly to the end of the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, and that he "deeply appreciated the attention, kindness and simplicity typical of George, Barbara and ...
Just moments before that, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation in a live televised address, drawing a line under more than 74 years of Soviet history.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev ...
Gorbachev had inherited a renewed period of high tension in the Cold War. [103] He believed strongly in the need to sharply improve relations with the United States; he was appalled at the prospect of nuclear war , was aware that the Soviet Union was unlikely to win the arms race and thought that the continued focus on high military spending ...
Credited as the man most responsible for the end of the Cold War, Gorbachev was beloved and loathed in equal measure.