Governing Through Turbulence
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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The Russian government is a time bomb just waiting to explode, you have a whole country in economic turmoil, and the leaders are frantic to try and diffuse the situation. Two leaders have tried to turn their nations around Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin of Russia. Although different it is surprising they both had the same common goal…
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in a small town in the Red Guard district of Stavropol province called Privolnoe. Gorbachev was accepted by the Soviet Union, Moscow State University, also its law school. He graduated in 1955, that is also the year he met and later married his wife named Raisa Maksmimovna Titorenko.
Gorbachev had a dream to help his country change from the Cold War, military superpower to an economic giant. It became evident that Gorbachev was trying to undo 70 years of economic...