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 * 41 A. Explain the role of various leaders in transforming the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. A. Mikhail Gorbachev:**

Mikhail Gorbachev was the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991. He was the only leader of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October Revolution in 1917 and was the last Head of State of the //USSR// from 1988 until the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed in 1991. In the late 1980s Gorbachev tried to reform the state with his policies of perestroika and glasnost. By the end of the 1980s, severe shortages of basic food supplies led to the reintroduction of the war-time system of distribution using food cards that limited each citizen to a certain amount of product per month. In a series of summit talks (1985–88), Gorbachev improved relations with U.S. President Ronald [|Reagan], with whom he signed an Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) arms limitation treaty in 1987. By 1989 he had brought about the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (see [|Afghanistan War]) and had sanctioned the end of the Communist monopoly on political power in Eastern Europe. For his contributions to reducing East-West tensions, he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. By 1990, however, Gorbachev's //perestroika// program had failed to deliver significant improvement in the economy, and the elimination of political and social control had released latent ethnic and national tensions in the [|Baltic states], in the constituent republics of [|Armenia], [|Georgia], [|Ukraine], and [|Moldova], and elsewhere. Read more: [|Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev — Infoplease.com] [] Freedoms were granted by mikhail, these freedoms were not respected and abused by citizens, such as the freedom to saw what they please without punishment, and they trash talked the government

He played a large role in the revolutions of many countries in Eastern Europe by allowing countries to change their government types as long as they remained loyal to the war song pact.

Gorbechev made many attempts to summit and conference with Reagan to attempt to make peace with the US. In 1987 he met with Ronald Reagan and signed the Immediate Nuclear Forces (INF) abolition treaty. He also made it clear he would no longer interfere in the domestic policies of other countries in Eastern Europe and in 1989 announced the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan after 9 years of war. He backed up the fight in Afghanistan in support of communists which then began a rebellion. In 1971 Gorbachev became a member of the Communist Party Central Committee. He later moved to Moscow where he became the Secretary of Agriculture. Gorbachev's attempts to reform as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his orientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War. The Red Army began to form, train, and arm Polish and Czechoslovak national units on Soviet territory in 1943. Gorbachev also made close relationships with several Western leaders leaving an impact on the countries those leaders were from. As party leader he immediately began forcing more conservative members of the Central Committee to resign. He replaced them with younger men who shared his vision of reform.

According to many as a ruler he "freed" the Soviet Union form communism, but at the same time he imprisoned them into capitalism and helped lead to the fall of the Soviet Union. Gorchabev's attempts at reform as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, ended the political empire of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and led to the end of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to reform the state with his policies but the soviet union collapsed before he could.

Gorbachev wanted freedom for the Soviet Union, but the economic policy of the government brought the country close to disaster.Gorbachev tried to change the USSR but almost destroyed it instead. Gorbachev's attempts at reform as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War and ended the political supremacy of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's positions within the CPSU created more opportunities to travel abroad, and it affected his political and social views in the future as leader of the country. After his resigning on December 25, 1995, he brought the end to the Soviet Union.

March 2, born, Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeisky District, Stavropol territory in the North Caucasus, to a peasant family in a small village, his father an agricultural mechanic on a collective farm.

Gorbachev gave people more freedoms, such as freedom of speech. Once people could speak without consequence, they criticized the government and the economic system.

After he was elected, he slowly started to change from a command economy to a market economy. With the Market economy the government was no longer in control of businesses and people were free to choose their own jobs. Gorbachev attempted to make changes in the economy to change it from a command economy to a market economy. He also met with Reagan many times in an attempt to make peace with the United States. In 1992 he began the Gorbachev Foundation, a think-tank for international issues, and now speaks and writes on history, politics and international affairs. Although Mikhail Gorbachev was a strong General, he was no match for the intensity of President Reagan's campaign against Communism in the Soviet Union. He set out to change the soviet union and the communist party which led to many unanticipated changes. Gorbachev promoted an increased role for leaders from the republics that made up the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and Glasnost where in perestroika he attempted to reconstruct the economy and Glasnost where new freedom to the soviet people was granted including the freedom of speech.

Gorbachev was born in [|Stavropol Krai] into a peasant [|Ukrainian]-[|Russian] family, and in his teens operated [|combine harvesters] on [|collective farms]. He graduated from [|Moscow State University] in 1955 with a degree in law.

Mikhail Gorbachev was on March 2 Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeisky District, Stavropol territory in the North Caucasus, to a peasant family in a small village, his father an agricultural mechanic on a collective farm. Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the major reasons why the Soviet Union started to fall apart and also the end of the cold war. Gorbachev helped the downfall of the communist government.

Gorbachev was born in [|Stavropol Krai] into a peasant [|Ukrainian]-[|Russian] family, and in his teens operated [|combine harvesters] on [|collective farms]. He graduated from [|Moscow State University] in 1955 with a degree in law

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1985 until its collapse in December of 1991. In 1992 he began the Gorbachev Foundation, a think-tank for international issues, and now speaks and writes on history, politics and international affairs. His memoir, //Life and Reforms//, was published in 1995.

Mikhail Gorbachev called for fast-paced technological modernization and increased industrial and agricultural productivity, and he attempted to reform the Soviet bureaucracy to be more efficient and prosperous.

Gorbachev was influenced and challenged by Raegan to tear down the Berlin wall, and he did after Raegan left the office

Mikhail Gorbachev was leader of the Soviet Union, while Ronald Reagan was president of the USA. They became allies, and influenced each other in different ways.

he started ideas meant to democratize the Soviet Union and improve the standard of livin

Gorbachev was the sixth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, when it collapsed.

Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and Glasnost where in perestroika he attempted to reconstruct the economy and Glasnost where new freedom to the soviet people was granted including the freedom of speech.