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Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Governors Island SummitRonald Reagan met Mikhail Gorbachev on Governors Island during the final days of 1988. The date marked December 7, a time when Cold War tensions still hung…
  • New Union TreatyThe New Union Treaty was a document that might have saved a superpower. In the summer of 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was racing against time to…
  • Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)Demokratizatsiya landed on the Soviet political scene in January 1987, when Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, called for the…
  • Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a village in the North Caucasus, into a peasant family so poor his parents had married as…
  • Sinatra DoctrineThe Sinatra Doctrine was named not in a diplomatic cable or a formal treaty, but in a quip delivered to reporters by a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman.
  • START ISTART I, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, was signed on the 31st of July 1991 by the leaders of two nations that had spent four decades pointing tens of…
  • Dissolution of the Soviet UnionOn the evening of the 25th of December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union and handed over his nuclear launch codes to Boris…
  • Gulf WarThe Gulf War pitted Iraq against a coalition of 42 countries led by the United States. On the 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded its small neighbor Kuwait and…
  • Malta SummitBrent Scowcroft and other members of the US administration were initially concerned that the proposed Malta Summit would be premature.
  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyThe Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ended, formally, on the 4th of August 2025, when Russia announced it would no longer abide by its terms.
  • Geneva Summit (1985)The Geneva Summit of 1985 brought Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev face to face for the first time on the 19th of November, 1985, in a lakeside villa…
  • Common European HomeThe "Common European Home" was a geopolitical concept created and championed by Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.