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A map of the different Soviet administrative divisions as they existed in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and two years prior to the Soviet Union's dissolution in December of 1991.

A picture of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. The last Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev oversaw the implementation of glasnost and perestroika, as well as the challenges and final decline of Soviet power. His resignation marked…