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Leonid Brezhnev Soviet Emerged as the dominant leader in the 1970¶s.
He was determined to keep
Union Eastern Europe in Communist hands and was
uninterested in reform. Under his rule, the party officials
were living large, while average Russians fought just to
make ends meet.
Ronald Reagan U.S.A. When elected in 1980, the relations with the Soviets got
even worse as he referred to them as an ³evil empire´.
He began a military buildup, which stimulated a new
arms race. {weaponry} By providing military aid to pro-
Soviet regimes in Afghanistan, he thought he would force
them to waste their resources on a foreign war.
Boris Yeltsin Russia President of the Russian republic, and new commander
in chief of Russia after collapse of the Soviet Union. He
vowed to transform Russia¶s socialist economy into a free
market.
Vladimir Putin Russia Elected President in 2000. He was a former officer of the
secret police and was widely seen as someone who
wanted to keep a tight reign on government power.
Review of Key Terms
Nationalism - devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism.
Republic ± a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of
citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen
directly or indirectly by them.
Democracy - government by the people; a form of government in which
the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by
them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
Communism ± where no government exists and the means of
production are owned and operated by all people as one equal class.
Socialism ± where the means of production are owned and run by the
government; non profit driven
Capitalism - the means of production and distribution are privately or
corporately owned and development and is based on the principle of
individual rights; profit driven
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Soviets Under Stress
Between 1964 and 1982, drastic change in
the Soviet Union was highly unlikely. So,
what the happened to create such a rapid
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