Mikhail Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, IPA: [gərbəˈtɕof], commonly anglicized as Gorbachev ; born 2 March 1931 ) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end...
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (born 1931) was a member of the Communist Party who rose through a series of local and regional positions to national prominence. In March 1985 the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party elected him general secretary of...
Gorbachev, Mikhail FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS 1931– Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to a peasant family in the Stavropol region of Russia. He excelled in both the classroom and the local...
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev[1] (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв (help·info), IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲɪʨ gərbɐˈʨof]; born 2 March 1931) is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the...
ALMOST EVERYONE is beating up on Mikhail Gorbachev as he heads for Washington for his first full-fledged summit with George Bush. It is hard to think of any summit participant since or before Richard Nixon in his Watergate period who came to a major...
To HEAR his admirers tell it-to hear him, in certain moods, telling it himself-the most fervent antiCommunist in the world today is Mikhail Gorbachev. In a Paris press conference early in July he foresaw a "process of democratization" sweeping Eastern Europe, and admitted incidentally...
Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...
Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: THE IMPERIAL FAMILY (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Feb. 24) Many parents complain they don't get to see enough of their grandchildren because their married son doesn't come to...
Examines the different policies of Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Gorbachev. Describes how they were similar and how they were different. Explores how each leader was viewed by the international community.
