The Nagorno-Karabakh war began under this leader's rule, and he resigned about a week after the Belavezha Accords were signed.
The Nagorno-Karabakh war began under this leader's rule, and he resigned about a week after the Belavezha Accords were signed. He removed Andrei Gromyko as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and this man implemented an "acceleration" program called uskoreniye along with reforms that allowed private ownership of some businesses and increased freedoms of the press. This man was targeted in a (*) 1991 Communist coup, which was suppressed by Boris Yeltsin. For 10 points, identify this Soviet leader who implemented policies such as glasnost and whose term saw the breakup of the USSR.
The Nagorno-Karabakh war began under this leader's rule, and he resigned about a week after the Belavezha Accords were signed.
Mikhail Sergeyevich {Gorbachev}