Tag: Gorbachev

John-Paul Himka In the mid-1980s everything began to change dramatically in the Soviet Union as a whole and, with some delay, also in the Ukrainian republic. The Brezhnev era, soon to be labelled “the period of stagnation,” came to an end when Leonid Brezhnev, who had served as general secretary of the Soviet Communist party … Continue reading General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev