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Mohan Guruswamy | Christmas '91: The day Red Flag was lowered

For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin's mood swings worsened by the alcoholic haze he was...

24 Dec 2020 12:00 AM IST

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Saeed Naqvi | Gorby's model: 1980s' Sweden as socialism was being...

Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform

9 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

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AA Edit | Gorby' transformed world's history, not a hero at home

The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever

2 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

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P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Gorbachev's was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics

2 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

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25 years after USSR: Will Russian spring return?

No sooner had Gorbachev finished, the red flag came down from the top of the Senate dome in the Kremlin for the last...

24 Dec 2016 5:04 AM IST

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From 1917 to 1991... End of a revolution!

Gorbachev had been aware of its capacity to do mischief, and had made it harder to obtain.

22 Dec 2016 3:28 AM IST