Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the southern Russian province of Stravropol Krai. Born to peasant ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991. On December 25, Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and last president of the USSR, resigned from his post. Twenty five years after his resignation the ...

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader credited ... Such a schism in mind, however, how might the last leader of the Soviet Union be remembered? What legacy does he leave behind?

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... more open to acknowledging where communism had fallen short in the Soviet Union. But his rise was at first inauspicious for ...

MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions in the party ... March 2, 2011 – On his 80th birthday, Gorbachev is awarded Russia’s highest honor, the Order of St.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw a series of major reforms to its political and economic structure during the 1980s but was judged by many... In what sounds like ...

1952 – Joins the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and works in various positions ... for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) 1993-2000 – Founds and serves ...