What Russian leader significantly altered political, diplomatic, and economic policies in the Soviet Union after 1985?

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Sim W.
May 6, 2017

Mikhail Gorbachev

Explanation:

Mikhail Gorbachev became Premier of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985, he would remain famous for being a reformer. His policies consisted in two aspects: glasnost and perestroika( transparency and reconstruction). The first one brought more individual liberties and the second one liberalized the economy to a certain extent.

He introduced an appeasement in the relationships with the USA, the Cold War officially ended in 1987 in Reykjavik.

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