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Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?

Hobbit those characters who lived 
within the realm 
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squelched cusp of progressivism,
now most likely 
experience bitterness at the autocracy
of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Permafrost of the cold war thawed 
when Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
(a Russian: born 2 March 1931) 
ranked as salutary Soviet statesman. 

As eighth leader of Soviet Union, 
he rang successful posts as follows: 
General Secretary of Communist Party 
Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. 
He headed country of sprawling Soviet state 
from 1988 until 1991 
Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet 
from 1988 to 1989, 
Chairman of Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, 
and President of Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991.

Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai
into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family knoll high
in his teens, operated combine harvesters
on collective farms as strapping guy.

He graduated from Moscow State University 
in 1955 with a degree in law. 
While at university, he joined Communist Party, 
and soon became jaw
burr walk key i.e. very active mouthpiece per se. 

In 1970, his near flaw 
less dossier a boon asper getting appointed 
First Party Secretary draw
ing salary of Stavropol Regional Committee, 
First Secretary as “Chaw” 

Bach ca qua Supreme Soviet in 1974, 
and appointed as member of Politburo in 1979.

Within three years after death of Soviet leader
Leonid Brezhnev, following brief "interregna" 
of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev 
elected general secretary chief
by Politburo in 1985. 

Before reaching said post, 
his bona fides occasioned bill leaf
As top dog name-dropped 
in Western newspapers 
as a likely next leader and reef
furred as barrier to manage 
younger generation at top level.

Gorbachev's policies of glasnost ("openness") 
and perestroika ("restructuring") and 
his reorientation of Soviet 
strategic aims contributed 
to end Cold War. Under a rustling brand
new program, the role 
of Communist Party in governing 
the state was removed demand 
did via the constitution, 
which inadvertently led to crisis-level 
political instability fanned
surge of regional nationalist 
and anti-communist activism 
culminating in dissolution hand
of Soviet Union. Gorbachev 
later expressed regret 
for failure to save USSR, Mother land
though he insisted his policies not failures, 
but rather vitally necessary reforms, miss man
aged, sabotaged and exploited by opportunists. 

He was awarded the Otto Hahn 
Peace Medal in 1989, 
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 
and Harvey Prize in 1992, plus un-cease
sing honorary doctorates from various universities. 

In September 2008, Gorbachev vis

a vis, and business oligarch Alexander Lebedev
announced formation of Independent 
Democratic Party of Russia,
and in May 2009 Gorbachev 
announced that launch meant 
to be imminent. 

This third attempt Gorbachev 
sought to establish a political party, rent
asunder from disparate competitors started 
Social Democratic Party of Russia in tent
toward legitimacy dated 2001, 
and Union of Social Democrats
in 2007 voice of the people to vent.
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