Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
1985 · Event
Mikhail Gorbachev takes power and launches the reforms of glasnost and perestroika.
On these timelines: Fall of the Soviet Union, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Master
More from Fall of the Soviet Union
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Resignation of Gorbachev (1991)
- Ukraine votes to leave the Soviet Union (1991)
- The Warsaw Pact dissolves itself (1991)
- The Pan-European Picnic breaches the Iron Curtain (1989)
- The Communist Party surrenders its monopoly (1990)
- The Soviet Union holds its first contested elections (1989)
- The Red Army leaves Afghanistan (1989)
Around 1985
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- 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)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)