The Entire World Wanted To Know the Answer to 'Twin Peaks' Biggest Mystery — Even This Political Leader
In the early 1990s, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in Twin Peaks was inescapable, and everyone wanted to ...
The Nation on MSN7d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...
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Soviet Union could have survived as Union of Sovereign States — Gorbachev
TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union and the need for ...
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As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
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Deseret News archives: Mighty USSR formed on this date in 1922
On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed.
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America Gets a Taste of Glasnost
Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union ... in the middle of Mikhail Gorbachev’s campaign ...
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Azerbaijani public addresses open letter to Nobel Committee to deprive Mikhail Gorbachev of Peace Prize
It is with a great sense of pain that we can say that it was after this massacre that the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded ...
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Larisa Epatko
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of Soviet Union and ‘perestroika’ reform efforts, dies at 91 As leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Gorbachev introduced a policy of greater transparency of ...