oct 10, 2020 - The Collapse of Communism in the East Bloc
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As Gorbachev's reforms increased appetite among East Bloc peoples for a Western-style society, Eastern Europeans rebelled (sometimes violently, sometimes nonviolently) against the Soviet government. They succeeded in defeating state capitalism, with private capitalism waiting in the wings, ready to rule in the former's stead.
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The End of the Cold War
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