His many calls and slogans such as uskorenie or in words we can understand, acceleration, did not only speed up the integration of his ideas but also accelerated the Soviet's decline. ... Instead the limits on expression were broadened largely but Gorbachev's intentions were to determine what those limits are. ...
Russia bounced back from the August 1998 financial crash with surprising speed. ... This economic model that has been used until today has appeared to show its limits, when after years of strong performance, Russian economy expanded by a small 1.3% in 2013. ...
Allen Lynch writes: The strong ideological tone adopted by the Reagan administration in 1981, together with its downgrading of arms control, eventually shattered a strong consensus in Moscow that there were strict limits to hostility intrinsic to the Soviet-American relationship.(3) Reaction in Moscow was reluctant and reserved, however in October 1982, one month before his death, he began an renewed awareness of American defense strategies and upgraded Soviet foreign policy in terms of defense towards the United States. ...
