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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected General Secretary of Soveit Union.
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Period: to
1985-1991
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Suspension of the deployment of SS-20s
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Gorbachev introduces his policy of Perestroika
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Withdrawlment of Soviet forces from the Afganistan War.
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Glasnost is introduced to the people
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Soviet abandonment of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
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August coop
State Committee for the State of Emergency launched August coop. -
Soviet Union formaly dissolved
