End of an Era
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- End of an Era
- End of Cold War
- Summit Meeting in Iceland 1986, Gorbachev proposed huge reductions in number of nuclear weapons held by USA and USSR
- Approach failed but disarmament confirmed in Washington Treaty signed end of 1987
- Gorbachev's reforms and movement to increased democracy improved relations, collapse of Berlin Wall ended Iron Curtain
- Superpower leaders met at Summit Meeting in Malta beginning December 1989
- First Summit Meeting for President George Bush, replaced Reagan 1989
- No agreements signed but statements made suggesting end of Cold War
- Collapse of USSR
- Gorbachev praised in West for ending Cold War but less popular in USSR
- Reforms greeted well but popularity soon fell because old structures acted against economy
- Food shortages remained, rationing of goods
- Gorbachev thought Communism would be reformed by policies, not collapse
- Gorbachev seen as betrayer and reforms total disaster
- Boris Yeltsin supported Gorbachev but thought he was moving too slowly, wanted more political democracy
- Public criticism led to media commenting on weakness of Soviet economy, for half century, people only received positive news reports, now negative ones
- Lost all faith and trust in political system, independence in states affected individual states in USSR wanting freedom
- Boris Yeltsin
- Yeltsin dismissed from Politburo but 1990 elected Chairman of Russian Parliament
- June 1991 President of Russian Republic
- August 1991 extreme communists rebelled and tried to seize power, Gorbachev under house arrest
- Yeltsin rallied people and stood up to rebels caused coup to collapse and Gorbachev back to power albeit weakened
- Demands of independence within USSR - collapsing
- 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned, USSR dissolved next day, Boris Yeltsin President of Russian Federation, replaced USSR in UN
- End of Cold War
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