1. Mr. Gorbachev -- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

2. 9 Gorbachev changed the course of Soviet history.

3. Gorbachev resigned as CPSU General Secretary on 24 August.

4. David Ost stressed the constructive influence of Gorbachev.

5. Through 19 Gorbachev maintained a unilateral ban on nuclear testing.

6. The most prominent faces were those of Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev.

7. President Gorbachev slammed "actions by irresponsible persons" for loss of life.

8. In 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev cited high cost and withdrew his troops.

9. Following the failed August coup of 1991, Gorbachev resigned as General Secretary.

10. Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of his party in March of 19

11. There were portraits of Gorbachev and Mandela, glinting with red, in the window.

12. 27 Gorbachev failed to keep the component parts of the Soviet Union together.

13. In the Soviet Union the leader at the time , Mikhail Gorbachev , was pursuing Glasnost, or'openness.

14. In Moscow the university learns law major when the Mikhail Gorbachev is young.

15. Second, and more important, came the succession of Mikhail Gorbachev to the Soviet leadership.

16. [Gorbachev Beholds a shattered hammer and sickle] Summary Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S

17. Mikhail Gorbachev achieved the same goal during the 1985 Geneva Summit meeting with Reagan.

18. During perestroika initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, Kovalyov was allowed to return to Moscow (in 1986).

19. The good news is that this gives Mr Gorbachev one last chance to pull away from disaster.

20. When Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, he was appalled by the economic decay.

21. In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament.

22. President Gorbachev, with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact, clearly gave his approval.

23. When ethnic clashes broke out in Osh 20 years ago Mikhail Gorbachev sent in Soviet troops.

24. During Yeltsin's campaign for the presidency Gorbachev had at times quite blatantly attempted to thwart him.

25. Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution Paperback – August 21, 2008 by Kevin C

26. Gorbachev, Yanayev and the presidents of the autonomous republics were also members of the Federation Council.

27. There are echoes here of the last Kremlin - dweller who embraced pragmatic foreign relations Mikhail Gorbachev.

28. Gorbachev must have found himself hard pressed to explain the stunning turn of events to them.

29. Mr Gorbachev is resisting centrifugal pressure, but leaving the door open for future change in party's status.

30. Fikryat Tabeev, the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, was accused of acting like a governor general by Gorbachev.

31. By the end of September, Gorbachev no longer had the authority to influence events outside of Moscow.

32. Gorbachev was eager to meet with Reagan, as a part of his overall policy of glasnost, or openness.

33. Ivashko adjourned the meeting, and the politburo went into emergency session, emerging to announce its unanimous backing for Gorbachev.

34. The Monetary Reform of 1991, was carried out by Mikhail Gorbachev and was known also as the Pavlov Reform.

35. On September 30, nearly 100,000 people marched in Kiev to protest against the new union treaty proposed by Gorbachev.

36. This is the last thing President Mikhail Gorbachev needs(Sentencedict.com ), as he tries to contain a staggering economic crisis.

37. Gorbachev is hailed for doing away with Soviet totalitarianism, yet his predecessor Andropov was the man actually responsible for preparing …

38. President Gorbachev continues to behave as if the middle ground were still there[Sentencedict.com ], because without it he is nothing.

39. Gorbachev responded to the Soviet Union's problems by introducing perestroika, or economic restructuring, and glasnost, an element of political freedom.

40. It was this political class of intelligentsia that prepared for perestroika and became the main support base for Mikhail Gorbachev.

41. On the first morning, a Saturday, Reagan and Gorbachev greeted each other amiably and with every indication of good feeling.

42. Gorbachev reacted calmly to these reports, noting that he had already experienced similar opposition in several other fraternal countries.

43. Although Gorbachev was the nominal chief of state, Boris Yeltsin now had immense popular support and wielded more substantial power.

44. More interesting will be the presence of Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms are viewed with disapproval and alarm in East Berlin.

45. Mr Gorbachev has three instruments that, he hopes, will make the press more pliant while falling short of complete censorship.

46. It is not condemning Gorbachev to point out the confusion surrounding the dismantling of the Soviet Union as a political entity.

47. By the time Mikhail Gorbachev initiated perestroika and glasnost in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was all but bust.

48. The tension between Soviet Union and Russian SFSR authorities came to be personified in the bitter power struggle between Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

49. Jambyn Batmönkh took over as General Secretary and enthusiastically plunged into the reforms implemented in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev.

50. When Gorbachev received the letter he was stunned – nobody in Soviet history had voluntarily resigned from the ranks of the Politburo.

51. The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster.

52. But today things were changing, with Mikhail Gorbachev trying to renew Soviet society and create a better life for the people.

53. His book Perestroika helps establish that from the very start Gorbachev was out to reorient,(sentencedict .com) not dismantle their system.

54. Yeltsin recovered, and started intensively criticizing Gorbachev, highlighting the slow pace of reform in the Soviet Union as his major argument.

55. In January 1987, Gorbachev called for democratization: the infusion of democratic elements such as multi-candidate elections into the Soviet political process.

56. Gorbachev also was quick to admit that the process of globalization played a major role in cracking open the closed Soviet society.

57. He advised Carter on the Iranian hostage crisis, sized up Gorbachev for Reagan, and wrote George H. W. Bush's war aims for Operation Desert Storm.

58. Play media On June 12, 1987, Reagan challenged Gorbachev to go further with his reforms and democratization by tearing down the Berlin Wall.

59. It was signed in 1991 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. It came into force in 19

60. According to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union spent 18 billion rubles (the equivalent of US$18 billion at that time) on containment and decontamination, virtually bankrupting itself.

61. The Law on Cooperatives enacted in May 1988 was perhaps the most radical of the economic reforms during the early part of the Gorbachev era.

62. , and by 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev was in power promising perestroika—a comprehensive restructuring of Soviet politics and economy—and glasnost, a policy of openness and transparency.

63. For his allies under the Warsaw pact, Gorbachev believed that the reforms he had tried at home would work to modernize each nation's ruling Communist Party.

64. In 19 Gorbachev introduced his policy of glasnost, which sought to promote free speech, limit media censorship, and encourage discussion of political, economic, and social issues.

65. In May 2007, a large posthumous collection of Anna's articles, entitled With Good Reason, was published by Novaya Gazeta and launched at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow.

66. Flanked by Mr. Gorbachev and former Polish President Lech Walesa, Ms. Merkel expressed her gratitude at ceremonies in Berlin marking the 20th anniversary of the wall's opening.

67. In 1995, Gorbachev received an Honorary Doctorate from Durham University, County Durham, England for his contribution to "the cause of political tolerance and an end to Cold War-style confrontation".

68. Nixon visited the Soviet Union in 1986 and on his return sent President Reagan a lengthy memorandum containing foreign policy suggestions and his personal impressions of Mikhail Gorbachev.

69. Pressed repeatedly by the Poles for an honest accounting, even Mikhail Gorbachev would provide only a partial admission based on "newly discovered evidence" that had been there all along.

70. Jean Malaurie led the first Franco-Soviet expedition in Siberian Chukotka in 1990, at the request of the Soviet government and of the Academician Dmitry Likhachov, Scientific Counsellor to Mikhail Gorbachev.

71. As Gorbachev had weakened the system of internal political repression, the ability of the USSR's central Moscow government to impose its will on the USSR's constituent republics had been largely undermined.

72. Post-USSR: The Apparatchiki By THEODORE KARASIK Rand Corporation On August 24, 1991 the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) ceased to exist when Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as party leader

73. Mikhail Gorbachev received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for harvesting a record crop on his family's collective farm in 1949 at age 17, an honor which was very rare for someone so young.

74. But neither Khrushchev, nor Mikhail Gorbachev, nor Boris Yeltsin were able to uproot Russia’s stubborn culture of indifference and subordination, precisely because they insisted on top-down change and expected that the Russian people would simply acquiesce en masse.

75. I have a suspicion that McKenna was trying to schmooze Scalia when he made the trust-but-verify comment, and Scalia recognized that attempt and threw back "I like it", replicating the exchange between Reagan and Gorbachev, but probably not swayed by McKenna's Cozening.