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Gorbachev founds the Social Democratic Party of Russia - which is a union between several Russian social democrat parties |
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Mikhail Gorbachev announces his resignation as head of the Soviet Union |
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). |
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Gorbachev returns from house arrest in Crimea |
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Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel peace prize |
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Mikhail Gorbachev is elected Executive President in the Soviet Union. |
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US President Ronald Reagan meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, Switzerland. It is their first meeting. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, at age 54, is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party |
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Mikhail Gorbachev is born in Stavropol in southern Russia. |
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