Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall

Previously, we examined the factors likely contributing to the development of Gorbachev’s political philosophy that led to his strategic...

Welcome back to our blog! We have made a podcast where we compare and contrast the strategic thinking of Gorbachev and Putin. This...

In today’s world, technology has been argued by many as a more effective and cheaper way to secure a border than a physical barrier....

In this blog, I will discuss the Soviet-Afghan War and Mikhail Gorbachev’s effect on the War. I will then look into how war has evolved...

Before Gorbachev rose to the ascendancy of the USSR political machine, he was the leader of his home region – desperately rural...

Source: (NATO, n.d.) After the end of World War II in 1945, the Allies split Germany into four “Allied Occupation Zones”. The Eastern...

Hello and welcome back to the blog! Throughout his career as a politician Gorbachev often saw his visions not fully come to fruition in...

Today, Human Rights violations still occur every-day and in many countries around the world, Russia included. Human rights activists and...

In my last post we examined Gorbachev’s nuclear deterrence strategy. Gorbachev saw how previous negotiation strategies of threats and...

Gorbachev had many strategic successes during his time in power, but I believe that his greatest success was how he handled the Cold War...

Since the 1950s, the USSR economy had been in steady decline, due in part to the Brezhnev period and his replacements, Andropov and...

In 1985, when Gorbachev came to power, the country he took charge of already well established as one of the worst human rights violators...

“From the beginning the priority assigned to science and technology by Gorbachev has been striking. Shortly before succeeding Chernenko...

Hello and welcome back to the blog! Much of the content of this blog has looked at policies Gorbachev attempted to implement that were...

In the first part of this blog post, I discussed Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise through the political system in the USSR from his origins as a...

Hello and welcome back to the blog! Gorbachev’s policy of Glasnost has been mentioned in a few of the blogs that have been uploaded prior...

In today’s world, many would argue that the advent of the internet and other information systems has had a mostly positive impact on...

During his time in power Mikhael Gorbachev took various strategic actions to democratise the Soviet Union’s political systems and opening...

Hello and welcome back to the blog, today we are sharing with you a post done by the whole team which deals with the agrarian reforms...

The Idea of mass surveillance encompassed the country after the communist revolution in Russia during 1917, when agencies such as the...