Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
1985 · Event
Mikhail Gorbachev takes power and launches the reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
On these timelines: Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Master
More from Cold War
- Solidarity movement in Poland (1980)
- Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
- Henry Kissinger (1923)
- Helsinki Accords (1975)
- Truman Doctrine (1947)
- Long Telegram (1946)
Around 1985
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- 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)