
Person
Mikhail Gorbachev
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 2, 1931
- Died
- Aug 30, 2022
- From
- Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.
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The Abyss

Zero Days

Faraway, So Close!

History 101

The 11th Hour

Meeting Gorbachev

The Battle of Chernobyl

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Putin's Witnesses

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

The Soviet Story

The Russian Woodpecker

The Way I See It

Palme

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Quando c'era Berlinguer