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Foreign Policy
It was founded in 1970 by Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel as a quarterly magazine . Under the leadership of its chief editor Moises Naim and during the period 1996-2009 , Foreign Policy went from being an academic to become a bimonthly publication aimed at the general public . -
Yuri Vladímirovich Andrópov
It was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death , fifteen months later -
Konstantín Ustínovich Chernenko
It was a Soviet politician, leader of the Soviet Union between 1984 and 1985 .Son of Siberian peasants , Chernenko joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in 1931 , participating prominently in the political practice of Stalinism during the decade of the 1930s, mainly in the elimination of the kulaks -
Mijaíl Serguéyevich Gorbachov
is a lawyer and Russian politician who was Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) from 1985 to 1989 and president of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and currently leads the Union of Social Democrats , -
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Glasnost
is known as a policy that took place at the same perestroika by the leader of the moment Mikhail Gorbachev , from 1985 to 1991.1 Compared with perestroika that dealt with the economic restructuring of the Soviet Union , glasnost focused on liberalize the political system -
Chernobyl disaster
It was a nuclear accident in the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( 3 km from the city of Pripyat , now Ukraine ) on April 26, 1986. Considered together with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 as the more severe in the International Nuclear Event Scale ( major accident , level 7) , is one of the greatest environmental disasters in history -
Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)
was a slogan introduced by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in January 1987 calling for the infusion of "democratic" elements into the Soviet Union's single-party government. Gorbachev's Demokratizatsiya meant the introduction of multi-candidate - not multiparty - elections for local Communist Party (CPSU) and Soviets. -
Perestroika
It´s known as the economic reform to develop a new structure of the domestic economy of the Soviet Union , and was put into practice throughout the territory of the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev , a month after taking power .
