who were the presidents of USSR?Russia from 1980-1990?
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http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/a/a4/Soviet_leaders_timeline.png\n\nMikhail Kalinin (January 17, 1938 - March 19, 1946) \nNikolay Shvernik (March 19, 1946 - March 6, 1953) \nKliment Voroshilov (March 15, 1953 - May 7, 1960) \nLeonid Brezhnev (May 7, 1960- July 15, 1964) \nAnastas Mikoyan (July 15, 1964 - December 9, 1965) \nNikolai Podgorny (December 9, 1965 - June 16, 1977) \nLeonid Brezhnev (June 16, 1977 - November 10, 1982) (died in office) \nVasily Kuznetsov (November 10, 1982 - June 16, 1983) (acting) \nYuri Andropov (June 16, 1983 - February 9, 1984) (died in office) \nVasily Kuznetsov February 9, 1984 - April 11, 1984) (acting) \nKonstantin Chernenko (April 11, 1984 - March 10, 1985) (died in office) \nVasily Kuznetsov (March 10, 1985 - July 27, 1985) (acting) \nAndrei Gromyko (July 27, 1985 - October 1, 1988) \nMikhail Gorbachev (October 1, 1988 - May 25, 1989) (office renamed)\n\nOn March 15, 1990 most constitutional powers were transfered to the newly created office of the President of the Soviet Union. Anatoly Lukyanov was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet to replace Mikhail Gorbachev. Although the Chairman's office retained its name, it was now that of a parliamentary speaker, not a head of state. Real executive powers were retained by Mikhail Gorbachev. \n\nPresident of the Soviet Union \nMikhail Gorbachev (March 15, 1990 - December 25, 1991) (office abolished with the dissolution of the USSR) \nGennady Yanayev (acting; in opposition) (August 19, 1991 - August 21, 1991)
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one word..money. Gorbachev was a centrist thinker who realized that communism was failing and trying to keep up with the US in the arms race was bankrupting the soviet economy. the Reagan government was very strong in its resolve against communism and the soviet empire as well. our strong economy could handle an arms race escalation, Gorbachev knew that the soviet economy could not. unfortunately for him, his perestroika reforms eventually led to his own demise, as the new openness it created bore fruit in the collapse of the communist Eastern bloc countries in the late 80's early 90's.
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I like Reagan too.  He had the balls to stand up to the Soviets, which eventually led to the end of the Cold War and the downfall of the Soviet Union.
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Ok, if you really want to know the history of the Soviet Union, there are a lot of websites out there that can help you out.  \n\nResearch it and let us know what you found out.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Communist dictatorship formed after the Russian Revolutions. It was first headed by Lenin, then Stalin before a succession of more moderate leaders. From 1919 until WWII it "comprised of 11 republics, the RSFSR, Ukraine, White Russia, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikisan, Kazakhstan and Kirghizia. In 1940 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, and Finno-Karelia became constitutional republics."
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Gorbachev never ruled Russia. He ruled the Soviet Union. \n\nFrom March 1985 то December 1991. Interestingly that from March 1985 to October 1988 he was "only" the General Secretary of the Communist Party, while the nominal country leader (the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet) was Andrey Gromyko. In October 1988 Gorbachev became the Chairman of the Presidium, in May 1989 - the Chairman of the new Soviet, from March 15 1990 to the end of December 1991 - the first and the last President of the USSR.\n\nYeltsin ruled Russia (initially as the part of the USSR) since 1990, first as the Chairman of  the Russian Supreme Soviet. On June 12, 1991 he the first Russian president.
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Jimmy Carter. Reagan took office in '81.
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Ronald Reagan\nGeorge Washington\nAbraham Lincoln\nMargaret Thatcher\nWinston Churchill\nCharles DeGaulle\nMikhail Gorbachev\nLenin\nStalin\nTony Blair\nGeorge Bush (sr and jr)\nSir John A MacDonald\nPierre Trudeau\nBrian Mulroney\nNikita Kruschev\nIndira Ghandi\nNeru\nNelson Mandela\nLech Walesa\nMussolini\nMao Tse Tung
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1.adolf hitler\n2> Josef Stalin\n3. Mao Tse tung\n4. ...\n\nbut maybe you mean alive or of all time? you should clarify then I';ll edit if need be...\n\n10) Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea. Age 63. In power since 1979. Last year’s rank: 10\n\n9) Seyed Ali Khamane’i, Iran. Age 66. In power since 1989. Last year’s rank: 18\n\n8) Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan. Age 65. In power since 1990. Last year’s rank: 8\n\n6) Hu Jintao, China.Age 63.In power since 2002. Last year’s rank:4\nBetween 250,000 and 300,000 political dissidents are held in “reeducation-through-labor” camps. There are no privately owned TV or radio stations. The government opens and censors mail and monitors phone calls, faxes, e-mails and text messages. \n\n5) Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan. Age 67. In power since 1990. Last year’s rank: 15\nKarimov’s army, massacred hundreds of men, women and children. A 2003 law made Karimov and all members of his family immune from prosecution forever. \n\n\n4) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe. Age 81. In power since 1980. Last year’s rank: 9\nLife in Zimbabwe has gone from bad to worse: It has the world’s highest inflation rate, 80% unemployment and an HIV/AIDS rate of more than 20%. Life expectancy has declined since 1988 from 62 to 38 years. Mugabe forcibly evicted some 700,000 people from their homes or businesses.\n\n3) Than Shwe, Burma (Myanmar). Age 72. In power since 1992. Last year’s rank: 3\nBurma leads the world in the use of children as soldiers, and the regime is notorious for using forced labor on construction projects and as porters for the army in war zones. The long-standing house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, recently was extended for six months. Just to drive near her heavily guarded home is to risk arrest.\n\n2) Kim Jong-il, North Korea. Age 63. In power since 1994. Last Year’s rank: 2\nWhile the outside world focuses on Kim Jong-il’s nuclear weapons program, domestically he runs the world’s most tightly controlled society. North Korea continues to rank last in the index of press freedom compiled by Reporters Without Borders, and for the 34th straight year it earned the worst possible score on political rights and civil liberties from Freedom House. An estimated 250,000 people are confined in “reeducation camps.” Malnourishment is widespread: According to the United Nations World Food Program, the average 7-year-old boy in North Korea is almost 8 inches shorter than a South Korean boy the same age and more than 20 pounds lighter.\n\n1) Omar al-Bashir, Sudan. Age 62. In power since 1989. Last year’s rank: 1\n\nSince February 2003, Bashir’s campaign of ethnic and religious persecution has killed at least 180,000 civilians in Darfur in western Sudan and driven 2 million people from their homes. The good news is that Bashir’s army and the Janjaweed militia that he supports have all but stopped burning down villages in Darfur. The bad news is why they’ve stopped: There are few villages left to burn. The attacks now are aimed at refugee camps. While the media have called these actions “a humanitarian tragedy,” Bashir himself has escaped major condemnation. In 2005, Bashir signed a peace agreement with the largest rebel group in non-Islamic southern Sudan and allowed its leader, John Garang, to become the nation’s vice president. But Garang died in July in a helicopter crash, and Bashir’s troops still occupy the south.
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He was a high ranking official in the former Soviet Union and he later became President of the Republic of Georgia.  He was removed from office following the famous Rose Revolution.
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im pretty sure it was always russia, but it became the major part of the USSR a couple years later
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In 1985, the assumption of power in the Soviet Union by a reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev, paved the way for political and economic reforms in East Central Europe. Gorbachev abandoned the “Brezhnev Doctrine”—the Soviet Union’s policy of intervening with military force, if necessary, to preserve Communist rule in the region. Instead, he encouraged the local Communist leaders to seek new ways of gaining popular support for their rule. In Hungary, the Communist government initiated reforms in 1989 that led to the sanctioning of a multiparty system and competitive elections. In Poland, the Communists entered into round-table talks with a reinvigorated Solidarity. As a result, Poland held its first competitive elections since before World War II, and in 1989, Solidarity formed the first non-Communist government within the Soviet bloc since 1948. Inspired by their neighbors’ reforms, East Germans took to the streets in the summer and fall of 1989 to call for reforms, including freedom to visit West Berlin and West Germany. Moscow’s refusal to use military force to buoy the regime of East German leader Erich Honecker led to his replacement and the initiation of political reforms, leading up to the fateful decision to open the border crossings on the night of November 9, 1989. \n\nIn the wake of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Czechs and Slovaks took to the streets to demand political reforms in Czechoslovakia. Leading the demonstrations in Prague was dissident playwright Vaclav Havel, co-founder of the reform group Charter 77. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia quietly and peacefully transferred rule to Havel and the Czechoslovak reformers in what was later dubbed the “Velvet Revolution.” In Romania, the Communist regime of hardliner Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and force of arms in December 1989. Soon, the Communist parties of Bulgaria and Albania also ceded power. \n\nThe revolutions of 1989 marked the death knell of communism in Europe. As a result, not only was Germany reunified in 1990, but soon, revolution spread to the Soviet Union itself. After surviving a hard line coup attempt in 1991, Gorbachev was forced to cede power in Russia to Boris Yeltsin, who oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union. \n\nThe collapse of communism in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union marked the end of the cold war. The U.S. long-term policy of containing Soviet expansion while encouraging democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe through scientific and cultural exchanges, information policy (e.g., Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty), and the United States’ own example, provided invaluable support to the peoples of East Central Europe in their struggle for freedom. \n\nhttp://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dr/17672.htm
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try this link\n\nhttp://www.clio.co.yu/docs/polis/03_rusija.html
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Some 40 years ago, a young striker named Viktor Ponedelnik rose to head the ball into the Yugoslav net in the first European Championship final at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris. The goal gave the Soviet Union a 2-1 victory and the first European championship.\n  \nViktor Ponedelnik, the goalie who died in 1990.\n \nThe team that won July 12, 1960, was one of the Soviet Union's greatest teams, boasting the likes of Lev Yashin - voted European Player of the Year in 1965 - Igor Netto and the speedy Georgian pair of Mikhail Meskhi and Slava Metreveli.\n\nPonedelnik's goal - and his name - went down in Soviet soccer folklore much like Geoff Hurst's hat trick in England's 1966 World Cup victory. Like England, the Soviet Union and Russia have yet to win a second international trophy.
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Ronald Reagan brought the Soviet Union to its knees and ended the cold war while pulling the U.S. out of the dredges of the Carter era of high inflation and high interest rates.  He brought back American pride--he made the country feel good again in a time when the country was not feeling very well.
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Soviet Union/Russia, whichever you want to call it.
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these is no change at all cause it just a changing of a dictator to another dictator... only a change of political ideas but no drastic change to the country itself... yes yes Russia became a world wide threat because of its communist belief but its simply just on the outside politically and still people continuing to suffer like throughout the history of Russia so there is no change