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'''Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev''' (born 2 March 1931) is a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the [[Soviet Union]], having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1990 to 1991). He was the only general secretary in the history of the [[Soviet Union]] to have been born after the 1917 October Revolution.  
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'''Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev''' (born 2 March 1931) is a former [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the [[Soviet Union]], having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.
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Mikhail Gorbachev served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the [[Soviet Union]] from 1990 to 1991). He was the only general secretary in the history of the [[Soviet Union]] to have been born after the [[Russian Revolution|1917 October Revolution]].
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In 1993, Mikhail Gorbachev founded the environmental organisation [[Green Cross International]] (GCI) and, in 2009, the [[Climate Change Task Force]] (CCTF).<ref>''[https://twitter.com/mgorbachev "Founder of Green Cross International and Climate Change Task Force"]''</ref>
  
 
==Background==
 
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==Career==
 
==Career==
In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief "interregna" of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
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In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader [[Leonid Brezhnev]], following the brief "interregna" of [[Yuri Andropov]] and [[Konstantin Chernenko]], Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.
  
 
==Policies==
 
==Policies==
Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of ''glasnost'' ("openness") and ''perestroika'' ("restructuring") as well as summit conferences with [[United States President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party in governing the state, and inadvertently led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992, as well as honorary doctorates from various universities.
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Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of ''glasnost'' ("openness") and ''perestroika'' ("restructuring") as well as summit conferences with [[United States President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the [[Cold War]], removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party in governing the state, and inadvertently led to the dissolution of the [[Soviet Union]]. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992, as well as honorary doctorates from various universities.
  
In September 2008, Mikhail Gorbachev and business oligarch [[Alexander Lebedev]] announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/30/russia |title=Gorbachev launches political party with Russian billionaire |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=30 September 2008 |accessdate=1 October 2008 |last=Gray  |first=Sadie}}</ref> and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716085011/http://mosnews.com/politics/2009/05/13/gorbiedem/|title=Mikhail Gorbachev will found new political party|publisher=mosnews.com |date=13 May 2009
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In September 2008, Mikhail Gorbachev and business oligarch [[Alexander Lebedev]] announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia,<ref>''[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/30/russia "Gorbachev launches political party with Russian billionaire"]''</ref> and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716085011/http://mosnews.com/politics/2009/05/13/gorbiedem/ "Mikhail Gorbachev will found new political party"]''</ref> This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2001 and the Union of Social Democrats in 2007.<ref>''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7054274.stm "Gorbachev sets up Russia movement"]''</ref>
|accessdate=13 June 2009}}</ref> This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2001 and the Union of Social Democrats] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7054274.stm|title=Gorbachev sets up Russia movement|publisher=BBC News|date=20 October 2007|accessdate=20 October 2007}}</ref>
 
  
 
==Opinions==
 
==Opinions==
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On 7 January 2021, Mikhail Gorbachev told the [[Russia]]n news agency [[Interfax]] that the riots in [[Washington]] last night had "called into question the future fate of the [[United States]] as a state."
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:“A little time will pass, and we will figure out why this was really done.”<ref>''[https://www.interfax.ru/world/744285 "Gorbachev saw a threat to the fate of the United States as a state"]''</ref>
 
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Revision as of 12:36, 11 October 2021

Person.png Mikhail Gorbachev   Spartacus Twitter WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, lawyer)
Mikhail Gorbachev.jpg
BornMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1931-03-02
Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow State University
ChildrenIrina Mikhailovna Virganskaya
SpouseRaisa Gorbachova
Founder ofGreen Cross International
Member ofClub de Madrid, Club of Rome
PartySoviet Communist Party, Independent Democratic Party of Russia, Social Democratic Party of Russia, Union of Social Democrats

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved.

Mikhail Gorbachev served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991). He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the 1917 October Revolution.

In 1993, Mikhail Gorbachev founded the environmental organisation Green Cross International (GCI) and, in 2009, the Climate Change Task Force (CCTF).[1]

Background

Mikhail Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party, and soon became very active within it.

Career

In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief "interregna" of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level.

Policies

Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War, removed the constitutional role of the Communist Party in governing the state, and inadvertently led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and the Harvey Prize in 1992, as well as honorary doctorates from various universities.

In September 2008, Mikhail Gorbachev and business oligarch Alexander Lebedev announced they would form the Independent Democratic Party of Russia,[2] and in May 2009 Gorbachev announced that the launch was imminent.[3] This was Gorbachev's third attempt to establish a political party, having started the Social Democratic Party of Russia in 2001 and the Union of Social Democrats in 2007.[4]

Opinions

On 7 January 2021, Mikhail Gorbachev told the Russian news agency Interfax that the riots in Washington last night had "called into question the future fate of the United States as a state."

“A little time will pass, and we will figure out why this was really done.”[5]

“The storming of the capitol was clearly planned in advance, and it's obvious by whom”
Mikhail Gorbachev (7 January 2021)  [6]


 

A Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

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Chernobyl disaster“The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of Perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later.”2006

 

Related Quotations

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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Preparation“Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.” Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.”Brookings Institution
Russia Beyond
November 2014
NATO“Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.” Gorbachev continued that “The agreement on a final settlement with Germany said that no new military structures would be created in the eastern part of the country; no additional troops would be deployed; no weapons of mass destruction would be placed there. It has been obeyed all these years.” To be sure, the former Soviet president criticized NATO enlargement and called it a violation of the spirit of the assurances given Moscow in 1990, but he made clear there was no promise regarding broader enlargement.”Brookings Institution
Russia Beyond
November 2014
NATO“We had a moment in history, between 1988 and 1991, where we could have worked with Mikhail Gorbachev to make his vision of perestroika succeed. Instead, we allowed him to fail, without any real plan on how we would live with what emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Save for a short period of time during the Second World War where we needed the Soviet Union to defeat Germany and Japan, we have been in a continual state of political conflict with the Soviet Union. Even after the Soviet Union collapsed, we viewed the Russian Federation more as a defeated enemy that we needed to keep down, than a friend in need of a helping hand up.”Scott Ritter2021
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