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Communism in Crisis – 1976-1989. Mr. Kuzmich IB Global Studies. Gorbachev: Aims and Policies. Mikhail Gorbachev: aims and policies glasnost perestroika Consequences for the Soviet state. Mikhail Gorbachev. Trained lawyer Party member Politburo – 1980 – Age 49. Andrei Gromyko.
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Communism in Crisis – 1976-1989 Mr. Kuzmich IB Global Studies
Gorbachev: Aims and Policies • Mikhail Gorbachev: aims and policies • glasnost • perestroika • Consequences for the Soviet state
Mikhail Gorbachev • Trained lawyer • Party member • Politburo – 1980 – Age 49
Andrei Gromyko • Soviet Foreign Minister • 1939-1988 • Ambassador to the US, UK, UN
Domestic Policies • Wave of Reform • alcohol • Perestroika (1986) economic restructuring • Glasnost (1988) openness
Foreign Policies • Non-intervention in satellite states • INF Treaty (1987) • Withdraw from Afghanistan (1988) • START (1991)
Foreign Problems • Chernobyl Disaster (1986) • Afghanistan