mar 15, 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev establishes the position of President and becomes the last leader of the Soviet Union

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"Mikhail Gorbachev, who himself south to dramatize what distinguished him from his predecessors: in doing so, he swept away communism’s emphasis on the class struggle, its insistence on the inevitability of a world proletarian revolution, and hence its claims of historical infallibility" (Gaddis 2006, p. 197).

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