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Perestroika
New Union TreatyMikhail Gorbachev stood before the Communist Party Congress in July 1990 and proposed a less centralized federal system.
1991 Soviet Union referendumOn the 24th of December 1990, deputies of the 4th Congress of People's Deputies voted by name to preserve the USSR as a renewed federation.
START IUS President Ronald Reagan stood at Eureka College on the 9th of May 1982 to announce a radical new vision for global security.
Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin was born on the 1st of February 1931 in the village of Butka, Ural Oblast. His family had lived in this area of the Urals since at least the…
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces TreatyIn March 1976, the Soviet Union deployed its first RSD-10 Pioneer missile system in European territories. Western analysts called this weapon the SS-20 Saber.
Soviet withdrawal from AfghanistanMikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985. He decided to seek a withdrawal from Afghanistan by October that same year.
Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…