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	Podcast:		Big Ideas - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:06
	Publish Date:		2021-05-27 10:05:00
	Description:		It’s 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev inherited a country that had many problems but was not on the verge of collapse. Six years later, he ended the Cold War and allowed the break-up of the USSR. What were the social, political and global forces that led this result? And how did the hero of glasnost end up being regarded a traitor by so many in his home country?
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