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    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

    "Gorbachev" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Gorbachev (surname).

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Gorbachev in 1987

    In office
    11 March 1985 – 24 August 1991[a]
    Premier
    DeputyVladimir Ivashko
    Preceded byKonstantin Chernenko
    Succeeded byVladimir Ivashko (acting)
    In office
    15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991[b]
    Vice PresidentGennady Yanayev[c]
    Preceded byHimself as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet
    Succeeded byOffice abolished[d]
    In office
    25 May 1989 – 15 March 1990
    DeputyAnatoly Lukyanov
    Preceded by

    Himself as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

    Succeeded byAnatoly Lukyanov
    In office
    1 October 1988 – 25 May 1989
    Preceded byAndrei Gromyko
    Succeeded by

    Himself as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet

    Additional posit

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    Mikhail Gorbachev

    (1931-2022)

    Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev?

    Mikhail Gorbachev became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress in 1961. He was elected general sekreterare in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. He resigned in 1991 and founded the Gorbachev Foundation. He remained active in social and political causes throughout the remainder of his life.

    Early Life

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to a Russian-Ukrainian family in the village of Privolnoye, in the Krasnogvardeisky District near the Stavropol Territory of southern Russia.

    Gorbachev’s parents were peasants. His father, Sergei, operated a combine harvester for a living. Sergei was drafted into the Russian Army when the Nazis invaded the USSR in 1941. Three years later, he was wounded in action and returned home to resume operating farm machinery. Sergei passed on his experience to his young son, Mikhail. Mikhail G

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    Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War

    Gorbachev remained a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin, who he accused of running an increasingly repressive regime.

    "Politics is increasingly turning into imitation democracy, said Gorbachev, "with all power in the hands of the executive branch."

    However, in 2014, Gorbachev defended the referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea.

    "While Crimea had previously been joined to Ukraine based on the Soviet laws, which means party laws, without asking the people," Gorbachev declared, "now the people themselves have decided to correct that mistake."

    On Gorbachev's 90th birthday in March 2021, President Putin praised him as "one of the most outstanding statesmen of modern times who made a considerable impact on the history of our nation and the world".

    And Gorbachev's own views of his legacy? It was right to end the totalitarian system and the