Gorbachev on New Year and looking to the 1990s

Title

Gorbachev on New Year and looking to the 1990s

Genre

Speech

TX Date

1 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:57

Description

Speech, via translator, by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (around the New Year) on the future of the USSR, changes in the past year and looking ahead to the 1990s. Legacy data gives transmission date as 1989 but believe it is 1990

Contributors

Mikhail Gorbachev

Keywords

Politics; USSR; International relations; Political reform; Europe; Future developments; New Year; Democratization; East West relations; Economic reform

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