Glasnost and perestroika
1985–1991 · Event
Gorbachev's twin reform programmes — openness and restructuring — unintentionally accelerate Soviet collapse.
On these timelines: Russia & the USSR, Master, Fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War
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- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
Around 1985
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)