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We Had a Great Mission
Gorbachev died at the age of 91. In his six years in power, he tried to modernize the sputtering Soviet economy and open up Soviet society efforts known as Perestroika and Glasnost. He sought to end the nuclear standoff with the West through a series of arms control treaties and outreach to Western leaders including Ronald Reagan.