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1 day ago · Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa initially rented a small room in Stavropol, [61] taking daily evening walks around the city and on weekends hiking in the countryside. [62] In January 1957, Raisa gave birth to a daughter, Irina, [63] and in 1958 they moved into two rooms in a communal apartment. [64]
2 days ago · Raisa Gorbacheva was the Kremlin’s only truly public first lady. Many Russians loved her—a fact Putin seems not to have grasped. “Putin thinks that Gorbachev’s beautiful, ...
11 hours ago · Yeltsin was initially a supporter of the perestroika reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticized the reforms as being too moderate and called for a transition to a multi-party representative democracy.
5 days ago · Joseph Stalin - Soviet Leader, Dictator, Purges: After Lenin’s death, in January 1924, Stalin promoted an extravagant, quasi-Byzantine cult of the deceased leader. Archpriest of Leninism, Stalin also promoted his own cult in the following year by having the city of Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd).
1 day ago · His landmark decisions in foreign policy and domestic programs markedly changed the direction of the Soviet Union, bringing détente with the West and a relaxation of rigid controls within the country. Khrushchev, who rose under Stalin as an agricultural specialist, was a Russian who had grown up in Ukraine.
5 days ago · Answer: Raisa Although the wives of western political leaders often find themselves in the public eye, this was less common for the wives of Communist leaders. Raisa Gorbacheva made regular public appearances alongside her husband, having left her post as a university lecturer when he became leader of the Soviet Union.
4 days ago · 八一九事件 （俄语： Августовский путч， 羅馬化：Avgustovskiy putch），又稱 八一九政变 、 八月政变 、 1991年蘇聯政變，是指1991年8月19日至8月21日， 蘇聯 政府内部上層官員企圖發動 政變，以廢除 戈爾巴喬夫 的 蘇聯共產黨中央委員會總書記 兼 蘇聯總統 职务，並收回各加盟共和国权力，最後未果。 主導政變者为 蘇聯共產黨 内的強硬派成員，包括苏联的副总统、总理、国防部长、内政部长、 國安局 （KGB，克格勃）局长和苏联国防会议副主席等。 他們认为戈爾巴喬夫的改革計劃過於激进，已影響蘇聯政府的基本架構，進而造成內部矛盾；同时，認為他正商議簽訂的 新聯盟條約，将中央權力過度分散于 各加盟共和國 政府。
