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4. Mikhail Gorbachev

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4. Mikhail Gorbachev Became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. He helped to end the era of the Cold War. He introduced two Russian words to international vocabulary: "perestroika", meaning restructuring, and "glasnost", meaning openness. Previous \| Next

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