play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on ... In 1986, when he was still general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred. That catastrophe also ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and the last Soviet ... He proclaimed a new course almost immediately after his appointment as Secretary General of the Communist Party’s Central Committee in ...

Enforce the TikTok Ban President Ronald Reagan repeatedly told then–Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that we would “trust but verify” any treaty with the Soviet Union. And we ...

(JTA) — Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose reforms ... 1985 that he would be different from his predecessors as secretary general of the Communist Party. He was younger, more vibrant ...