Russian Leadership History - In background paper format

1. Have you ever wondered who dreamt up welfare and other governmental social services programs? How about why we spend billions of dollars on National defense? Why we have so many nuclear weapons? Or who are we actually training to fight when we have our military exercises? All of the previous questions, believe it or not point to one Nation - Russia. The way Russia was shaped earlier this century had a huge effect on the …

…rockets can find Halley's comet and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but...many household appliances are of poor quality." Gorbachev had the integrity and honesty within himself to lead the drive that brought Russia more in line with a democratic society. President Nixon probably expressed it best when he said "He has decided that he would risk his power in order to save his reforms, rather than risk his reforms to save his power."