The Fate of the Soviet Bloc's Military Alliance - Reform, Adaptation, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985¿1991

The Warsaw Pact, a military alliance established by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, was a significant tool for Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. Renewed for 30 years, it was disbanded six years later due to political transformation in Eastern Europe. This Element explains its final years and its demise in 1991.