MIKHAIL GORBACHEV b. March 2, 1931

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (b. March 2, 1931)

• March 11, 1985 (GENERAL SECRETARY)
• April 23, 1985 (perestroika)
• October 11-12, 1986 (THE REYKJIAVIK SUMMIT)
• HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE
• GLASNOST (OPENNESS)
• THE FIRST CONGRESS OF PEOPLES DEPUTIES (May 25
  July 7, 1989)

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EASTERN EUROPES REVOLUTIONS

• DEMOCRATIC PARLIAMENTARTY ELECTIONS IN POLAND
  (June 4, 1989)
• HUNGARY OPENS BORDER TO AUSTRIA (September 10,
  1989)
• PROMULGATION OF NON-COMMUNIST HUNGARY (October
  23, 1989)
• FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL (November 9, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA (November 10, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN CZHECHOSLOVAKIA (November 24, 1989)
  
• GORBACHEV AND GEORGE BUSH DECLARE THE COLD WAR
  ENDED (December 2, 1989)
• REVOLUTION IN ROMANIA (December 22, 1989)
• REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY (October 3, 1990)
• WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA (1991-99)
• THE BREAKUP OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA (JANUARY 1, 1993)

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DEATH OF COMMUNISM (August 19-21, 1991)

• BORIS YELTSINS ELECTION TO THE RUSSIAN
  PRESIDENCY (June 12, 1991)
• GORBACHEVS VACATION IN CRIMEA (August 5 22,
  1991)
• STATE COMMITTEE ON THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
• DEMISE OF THE USSR (December 8, 1991)
• CREATION OF A COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
  (December 21, 1991)
• GORBACHEVS RESIGNATION (December 25, 1991)