Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Cold War
Cold War
Cold War
Accountability?
● Truth commissions
● Extraditions
The End of the Cold War
● Gorbachev adopted two important reforms in 1986
that led to the end of the Cold War:
○ Glasnost (‘openness’)
○ Perestroika (‘restructuring’)
● In 1990, the Baltic republics declared their
independence from the USSR
● End of 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist,
replaced with fifteen new, independent nations
& after?
Buildings and vehicles destroyed in Grbavica, a suburb of Sarajevo, The Rwandan refugee camp in Benako, Tanzania, in 1994
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–95)
Reading #7: Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear
Families, Atomic Cities, and the Soviet and
American Plutonium Disasters