Leonid Brezhvev replaced Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev promoted perestroika, Hungarians and Czechoslovakians criticized their communist regimes, Lech Walesa called for Solidarity in Poland, the Afghanistan invasion drained the Soviet Union, and communism's collapse was punctuated by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
General Note
Based on CNN's landmark series Cold War. Includes index, timeline, glossary, and bibliography.