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Gorbachev's Lost Legacy
Cohen, Stephen F. | March 14, 2005 issue

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Focuses on the legacy of former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika. Statement that perestroika consisted of reforms to failed domestic and foreign policies; Reference to Gorbachev's political and economic reforms; Role of Gorbachev in ending the Cold War; Relations between Gorbachev and former United States President Ronald Reagan; Statement that Gorbachev's successor, Boris Yeltsin, did not continue the reforms; Statement that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is undoing Gorbachev's democratization efforts; Criticism of international relations between the United States and post-Soviet Union Russia; Possibility that the two countries will begin another nuclear arms race.

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PERESTROIKA; SOVIET Union -- Politics & government -- 1985-1991; SOVIET Union -- Economic policy -- 1986-1991; INTERNATIONAL relations; ECONOMIC history; GORBACHEV, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-; REAGAN, Ronald; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; YELTSIN, Boris Nikolayevich, 1931-2007; COLD War; POLITICAL doctrines; UNITED States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; SOVIET Union -- Foreign relations -- United States; RUSSIA (Federation) -- Foreign relations; RUSSIA (Federation); UNITED States
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