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Following Stalin's death, the Soviet Union held three major anti-alcohol campaigns. The first was held during Nikita Khrushchev's rule in 1958, [6] the second during Leonid Brezhnev's tenure in 1972, [7] [8] and the third (and biggest) was held during Mikhail Gorbachev's years from 1985 to 1988. [9]
Anti-alcohol campaign; Chernobyl disaster; Demokratizatsiya; ... Gorbachev: His Life and Times is a 2017 biography of Mikhail Gorbachev by William Taubman. [1] [2] [3 ...
By the 1980s, drunkenness was a major social problem and Andropov had planned a major campaign to limit alcohol consumption, but died before the plan was put into action. Encouraged by his wife, Gorbachev—who believed the campaign would improve health and work efficiency—oversaw its implementation. [193]
Mikhail Gorbachev increased controls on alcohol in 1985; [20] he attempted to impose a partial prohibition, which involved a massive anti-alcohol campaign, severe penalties against public drunkenness and alcohol consumption, and restrictions on sales of liquor. The campaign was temporarily successful in reducing per capita alcohol consumption ...
Uskorenie (Russian: ускорение, IPA: [ʊskɐˈrʲenʲɪɪ̯ə]; literally meaning acceleration) was a slogan and a policy announced by Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 20 April 1985 at a Soviet Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of political, social and economic development of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev was enduringly popular in Germany for enabling the country's reunification after four decades of post-World War II division — and setting the scene for the peaceful collapse of ...
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has written an op-ed in TIME magazine warning about the dangers of nuclear weapons. Mikhail Gorbachev warns: 'Looks as if the world is preparing for war ...
Gorbachev is frank about his frailty, as a wintry, ticking-clock atmosphere pervades the film: At some points he speaks as if offering a last testament of sorts, while at others he clams up, as if ...