Perestroika

1985 – December 26, 1991

Led to Dissolution of the Soviet Union

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Perestroika
 

Mikhail Gorbachev's programme to restructure the Soviet economy and politics, with glasnost (openness). It loosened Communist control and led to the end of the Soviet Union.

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