CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye, Russia, ...

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 ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

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 ...

But what did 1989 mean to one of its chief architects, the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and what role did he play in these events? A. A. Galkin, A. S. Chernyaev (eds), Mikhail Gorbachev i ...

MOSCOW, December 25. /TASS/. The Soviet Union’s first president, Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union ...