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Flow Of Communism Stalled In The 1980s And Gorbachev
The 1980s saw stagnation amid Soviet decline with Afghanistan, shortages, and new openness. Gorbachev pressed perestroika and glasnost while dissidents were freed and Eastern Europe pushed toward reform. By decade's end echoes of distant revolts and economic strain underscored communism's waning grip.
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Moscow
Afghanistan
Andrei D. Sakharov
Lenin
Russia
Soviet Union
West
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Gorbachev
Reagan
Europe
Kremlin
Poland
Hungary
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Communist Party
Erich Honecker
Berlin
Deng
China
Davies
Tiananmen Square
Africa
Vietnam
Cuba
Romania
Nicolae Ceausescu
Kim Il Sung
North Korea
Boris Pestov
Bolsheviks
West Germany
Pag
Martin Jacques
Egon Krenz
Kaput
Krenz
Honecker
Alexander Dubcek
Prague
Wenceslas Square
Eduard A. Shevardnadze