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    Essay Planning Cold War To what extended was Gorbachev responsible for the end of the Cold War? Introduction: In the 80s decade the world saw the second cold war‚ by these time Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of the Soviet Union and Ronald Regan the president of the United States‚ the united states in 80s manage the relationship with the USSR in a hard way‚ making them know the US wasn’t going to be giving away any petition from the USSR‚ by this stage the soviet union was passing throw a bad

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    The moment Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union’s leader was the beginning of the end for the Cold War. Appointed in 1985‚ Gorbachev was left with a broken nation‚ whose people had little freedom to voice their beliefs without facing repercussions from the communist society that was so ingrained in the Soviet at that time. Faced with economical problems along with the current government’s poor treatment of the people‚ Gorbachev knew he need to ameliorate his degrading and suppressed nation.

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    Mikhail Baryshnikov

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    Dance History‚ ABT‚ Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Baryshnikov‚ Russian dancer‚ choreographer and actor is considered one of the greatest ballet dancers in history alongside Vaslav Nijinski and Rudolf Nureyev. He was born to Russian parents in Latvia‚ a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe then occupied by the Soviet Union‚ on January 27th‚ 1948. After dancing with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad‚ he defected to Canada in 1974 to take advantage of opportunities in western dance. He free

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    differences. These tensions put the countries through a Cold War in which the US and the USSR vied for influence in the world. The election of president Mikhail Gorbachev who was known for being more liberal and more

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    On December 25‚ 1991‚ the Soviet Union flag lowered for the last time. With the lowering of the flag‚ Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from the post of President. As changes are occurring from Gorbachev’s steady hand‚ people all around the world watched in disbelief as the Soviet Union was split into separate nations peacefully. These changes could not have transpired without the revolution that Gorbachev brought forward. His reform efforts would be the eventual catalyst towards demanded freedom from Eastern

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    The Fall of the Soviet Union

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        2   ABSTRACT       The   purpose   of   this   paper   is   to   investigate   the   factors   that   contributed   to   the   collapse  of  the  USSR.  Did  Mikhail  Gorbachev’s  political  reforms  cause  the  collapse  of   the   Soviet   Union?   Or   did   the   combination   of   internal   and   external   factors   of   the   post-­‐Stalin

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    During his imprisonment‚ Bakhtin began suffering health problems caused by chronic osteomyelitis‚ a painful inflammation of the bone marrow‚ and while his exile to the frozen isolation of Kazakhstan was no doubt severe‚ it undoubtedly saved him from a certain death in prison. During exile‚ Bakhtin was prevented from teaching and instead supported himself as a bookkeeper. In 1936‚ he was released from exile and taught for a time in Saransk until renewed purges led him to resign and move to a small

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    commemorate the 750th anniversary of Berlin. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the symbol of communist oppression. Reagan uses rhetorical language in order to persuade Gorbachev and his supporters into beginning the demolition process that would set Eastern Europeans free. Reagan uses rhetoric to in influence thoughts of his target audience‚ Mr. Gorbachev and the Soviets. He begins by formally addressing “Chancellor Kohl”‚ “Governing Mayor Diepgen”

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    HL History Internal Assessment Was President Ronald Reagan the reason for the Cold War’s conclusion? Word Count: 1‚634 Was President Ronald Reagan the reason for the Cold War’s conclusion? A. Plan of Investigation This investigation focuses on the impact that President Ronald Reagan had on ending the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union during the 1980’s. The use of historian argumentation‚ primary sources‚ such as Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation on Defense

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    Mikhail M. Bakhtin

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    Response Paper #11: Mikhail M. Bakhtin Three important points on the biography of the critic include: 1). According to Wikipedia: Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher‚ literary critic‚ semiotician‚ and scholar who worked on literary theory‚ ethics‚ and the philosopher of language (n.p). 2). According to Biography.com: In 1929 he was exiled from Vitsyebsk to Kazakhstan. Known for Problems of Dostoevsky ’s Poetics‚ his ideas influenced Western thinking in cultural history‚ linguistics‚ literary

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