Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Former prime minister of Lithuania Kazimiera Prunskiene lead her country from 1990 to 1991, as it sought independence from the former Soviet Union...
...Boris Berezovsky. As Yeltsin?s prot?g? Sergei Kiriyenko sets about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...
...Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union...
...Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Soviet Union, which breaks up into independent free states...
...Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia putting an end to "Prague Spring...