Mijail Gorbachev, the last leader of the defunct Soviet Union said that the “world was a safer place during the Cold War” and warned that the major current risk to the world is the ...

Atlantisch Perspectief, Vol. 43, No. 6, Special Edition: Thirty Years after the End of the Cold war (2019), pp. 30-33 (4 pages) The year 1989 stands out in retrospect as the most hopeful moment in the ...

was not a result of American policies and the Cold War ... not ever go to war. , but more to do with the problems faced by the USSR at home and abroad. In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected ...

If American defense spending had bankrupted the Soviet economy, forcing an end to the Cold War, Soviet defense ... gross national product during the 1980s, including Gorbachev's first four years ...

Maybe I could excerpt my piece on Rice, in 1999: Conservatives, Rice maintains, “underestimate Gorbachev’s role” in the conclusion of the Cold War: “The Soviet Union might have been weak ...

There was one brief, glorious exception: the last years of Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership ... committed by the United States during (and after) the Cold War, which make it impossible for most ...

During her final days, Gorbachev spoke daily with television ... which he created to address global priorities in the post-Cold War period, and with the Green Cross foundation, which was formed ...

In 1990, Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the first nuclear arms reduction treaty and for bringing an end to the Cold War. His “new thinking” foreign policy sought cooperation ...

1990 – Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end the Cold War. October 2007 – Becomes ... March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor, the Order ...