1985:This new General Secretary of the Communist Party brings Yeltsin to Moscow
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Boris Yeltsin's Life and Career | Timeline - Infoplease  1931, 1956, 1976, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2007 ... July. The new general secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev, brings Yeltsin to Moscow as secretary of the Central Committee for Construction.
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ...  (b. 1931), charismatic anticommunist reformer, first president of post-Soviet Russia. ... and chief of the Central Committee Department of Construction (1985). ... reform-minded communists under new CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. ... Gorbachev now accepted Yeltsin's prior resignation from the Moscow Party...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin's democratization led to .... On 11 March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the CPSU ... resign from the post of First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party.
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1985-1991 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev - GlobalSecurity.org  Mar 3, 2016 ... Gorbachev returned to Stavropol after graduating from Moscow University, ... helping to bring a new generation of politicians into the top level of government. ... In March 1985, Gorbachev became general secretary, the first leader of ... The new party program contained no surprises, and the congress made...
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Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia  Gorbachev Era  Revolutions of 1989  Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Leader of the Soviet .... While at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... Gorbachev was elected general secretary by the Politburo on 11 March 1985, .... For the first time since Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy, the law...
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Nikita Khrushchev - Cold War - HISTORY.com  At home, he initiated a process of de-Stalinization that made Soviet society ... Khrushchev joined the communist Bolsheviks in 1918, more than a year after ... Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, Let's compete. ... Six months later, he became head of the Communist Party and one of the...
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BORIS YELTSIN: 1931-2007 / He led Russia from communism ...  Apr 24, 2007 ... Yeltsin was the first leader in Russian history -- medieval, imperial or Soviet ... atop a tank outside the Russian republic's parliament, galvanizing popular ... Image 5 of 10 .... in October by the first of what would be two serious heart attacks. ... he rose to become his nation's first popularly elected president.
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the .... As a politburo member Yeltsin was also given a country house (dacha) ... who now moved to a much bigger and more luxurious purpose-built dacha ... He added, "On his return to Moscow, Yeltsin would confess the pain he had felt...
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... - Wikipedia  General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was ... Leonid Brezhnev succeeded Khrushchev to the post as part of another ..... Vladimir Lenin (19121924); Joseph Stalin (19291953); Nikita Khrushchev (19531964); Leonid Brezhnev (19641982); Yuri Andropov (19821984)...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... Within a few years of his presidency, many of Yeltsin's initial supporters had .... he was stunned  nobody in Soviet history had voluntarily resigned from the .... On 18 August 1991, a coup against Gorbachev was launched by the...
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On This Day: Reformist Alexander Dubcek Takes Power in ...  5, 1968, Alexander Dubcek became first secretary of the Communist Party of ... of the Czechoslovakian people, who by 1968 were ready for liberal reform. ... return to his post as first secretary, Dubcek was forced out in 1969 and replaced by the ... two months before Czechoslovakia was to peacefully split into two countries.
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Boris Yeltsin  On 12 June 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected...
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Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia  Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), ... After years of declining health, Brezhnev died on 10 November 1982 and was quickly succeeded in his .... Khrushchev made him Second Secretary, literally deputy party leader, in 1964.
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List of leaders of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  Under the 1977 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Chairman .... Yuri Andropov succeeded Brezhnev in his post as General Secretary in 1982. He was 68 years old at the time. In 1983 Andropov was hospitalised,...
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Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia  Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of ... Hoping eventually to rely on missiles for national defense, Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... On 12 June 1991 he was elected by popular vote to the newly created post of ... However, Yeltsin never recovered his early popularity after a series of ..... On 2 January 1992, Yeltsin, acting as his own prime minister, ordered the...
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. ... Several of the former Soviet republics have retained close links with the .... Finally, on December 23, 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yeltsin First Secretary of ... He proposed that future Communist Party elections should offer a choice...
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Boris Yeltsin - Wikipedia  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of the ... On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme ... second round he defeated Gennady Zyuganov from the revived Communist ... Within a few years of his presidency, many of Yeltsin's initial supporters had...
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Perestroika and Glasnost - Cold War - HISTORY.com  Within five years, Gorbachev's revolutionary program swept communist ... the largely political and economic rivalry between the Soviets and the United States and ... Perestroika, his restructuring concept, started with an overhaul of the top ... due to the efforts of Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), president of the Russian Republic,...
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Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia  Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. .... In 1950, he became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's highest legislative body. Later that...
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Timeline: Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin : NPR  Apr 23, 2007 ... Read highlights of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's life and career. ... 1, 1931: Born to peasant parents in the Ural Mountains. ... 1969: Becomes full-time party official in charge of construction in the Sverdlovsk region. ... making him the powerful boss of one of the Soviet Union's key industrial areas.