Plot synopsis

During Gorbachev's tenure as head of state and leader of the CPSU, the Soviet Union underwent major changes that affected the entire world and resulted from the following historical events:
A large-scale attempt to reform the Soviet system ("Perestroika"). Introduction of the policy of glasnost, freedom of speech and the press, democratic elections, reform of the socialist economy in the direction of a market model of management (the concept of economic reforms of 1987 assumed entry into market relations in the distant future) in the USSR.
End of the Cold War.
Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan (1989).
Rejection of the state status of communist ideology and persecution of dissidents.
The collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Bloc as a result of the transition of the USSR and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe to a market economy and democracy.

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- Historical Chronicles with Nikolay Svanidze, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

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Mikhaïl GORBATCHEV (Михаил Сергеевич ГОРБАЧЁВ) 1931-2022