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, Cold War
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- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
Around 1985
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- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)