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The Collapse of the Soviet Empire, 1980–2000 key terms
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The Collapse of the Soviet Empire, 1980–2000
AqaA LevelHistory2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet
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Cold War
A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States from the end of World War II until the early 1990s.
Boris Yeltsin
The first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999, who played a significant role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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