The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

Title: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union
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The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union Almost sixty-nine years after it was founded, the Soviet Union came to an end. In 1985 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party, and in 1988 he became President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). However, six years later on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned. It was at this time that the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Most Russians today, still suffering through a difficult transition, …showed first 75 words of 1382 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1382 total…be remembered as a transitional figure who was, ultimately, unable to either comprehend or control the forces that had been loosened? And isn’t it ironic, that it was Mikhail Gorbachev who had appointed Yeltsin as first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in 1985, and Yeltsin, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, took over as president. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the most dramatic events of out time.

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