Gorbachev Mikhail

The Stalinist era had consolidated the Socialist Realist canon and created an effective system of cultural institutions. However, Stalin s legacy became particularly burdensome, leading the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to partially deny this legacy in the Twentieth Party Congress (1956) nevertheless, neither he nor his successors (until Mikhail Gorbachev) discarded the practices and institutions established during Stalinism. 

When Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as President of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991, the self-dissolution of the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) occurred the following day. These events de facto dissolved the Soviet Union into nonexistence. Though the process of disintegration commenced much earlier (Gaidar, 2007), both aforementioned events sealed the fate of the country. Consequently, these acts gave... 

Smith, T. J., Green, E. F. (1989). The dilemma of economic reform in the Soviet Union. In W. G. Miller (Ed.), Toward a more civil society The USSR under Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (pp. 121-152). New York Harper Row. 

The events of 1989 suggested that East German society was riven by deep tensions, and bore witness to an underlying and widespread dissatisfaction with the regime. In October 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Berlin... 

March Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union. 

August Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. 1991 December The Soviet Union is dissolved. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of the Russian Federation. 

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