COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE

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COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE
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Soviet Leaders
Lenin Stalin
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Khrushchev Brezhnev
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Ethnic groups More than 150 Forced to abandon
their language and culture ASSIMILATION
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Soviet Command Economy State planners made
decisions Heavy industry pushed consumer
goods neglected Poor quality-wont sell abroad
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Yuri Andropov
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Konstantin Chernenko
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Policies of Mikhail Gorbachev Perestoika-economi
c reorganization Glasnot-openness
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Problems for Gorby Unrest in Eastern
Europe -Poland Solidarity -Hungary some
capitalism -Baltic States demand
freedom -East Germany want to go to West
Germany
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Financial drain of supporting occupation armies
and communist governments like Cuba Hardliners
attempt a coup in 1991
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• Iron Curtain falls
• 1989
• Hungary opens border with Austria
• Poland holds free elections and next year elects
  Walesa as President
• Other countries follow example

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Berlin Wall Falls
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Republics break away 1990-91 Baltic
States Georgia Russia
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Boris Yeltsin
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Yeltsin declares Russia independent
Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected
leader of Russia
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Vladimir Putin Second President of
Russia Current Premier
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Putin turns back the clock less freedoms
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