... is explained as the main factor that led the Eastern Europe and Soviet Union to the collapse. Russian Historian, Vladimir Batyuk, describes how the Gorbachev reforms, and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union, changed Moscow's view of the world. The Communist ideology, as publicly expressed by Soviet leaders, no longer used terms like 'class struggle" by the 1970s. Mikhail Gorbachev ... to the West, and his internal reforms - perestroika - led to the collapse of the Cold War. Ideologically the Cold War began as early as 1917. After 1945, with the Soviet Union ascending to the...

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