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Revolts
The Soviets were facing backlash from political instability after Stalin. They put down revolts in Germany (1953), Poland (1956), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Russia began to build nuclear bases in Cuba where they could strike the US. It ended when they agreed that the Soviets dismantle their bases and return to the Russia, in exchange for the US never to invade Cuba. -
Glasnost
Glasnost means openness and was the name for the social and political reforms to give more rights and freedoms to the people. -
Perestroika
Perestroika refers to the rebuilding of the political and economic system recognized by the Communist Party. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the USSR. -
End of USSR
The USSR was voted out of existence by the Supreme Soviet, following the Belovezha Accords. -
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from office and hands office to Boris Yeltsin -
Russia Today
The economy became capitalist. Russia became a semi-democratic republic government
