Gorbachev Timeline

Question 1

1985

Answer 1

1985: Gorbachev gets power

Question 2

1986

Answer 2

1986: Glasnost and Perestroika implemented (openness, change)

Question 3

26th April 1986

Answer 3

Chernobyl Disaster

Question 4

19th Nov 1986

Answer 4

Law on Individual Labour Activity – some private enterprise in service sector

Question 5

Dec 1986

Answer 5

Law on Joint Enterprises with foreign companies

Question 6

1985-87

Answer 6

Phase 1 of Peristoika (accelerated growth)

Question 7

1987-89

Answer 7

Phase 2 of Peristoika (radical reform)

Question 8

1st Jan 1988

Answer 8

A Law on State Enterprises – elect managers, incentives increase productivity

Question 9

1989

Answer 9

Phase 3 of Peristoika (developing chaos)

Question 10

Summer 1989

Answer 10

Miners Strike + other widespread strikes due to permitted trade unions

Question 11

1990-91

Answer 11

Phase 4 of Perestroika (move to a market-based economy)

Question 12

Jan 1991

Answer 12

Russian Supreme Soviet – law permitting private property ownership

Question 13

Dec 1991

Answer 13

Soviet Union collapses