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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
At the age of 91 years old, Gorbachev is the longest-lived ruler of Russia to date, having lived longer than Alexander Kerensky and Vasili Kuznetsov, who both died at 89 years old. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] On 3 September, a funeral was held for Gorbachev, and he was buried later that day.
Despite replacing over 150 senior defense ministers and officers after the Mathias Rust incident, [6] Gorbachev's frustrations were only compounded when just two months before the Washington Summit was held, then-candidate member of the Politburo and supporter of Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, denounced the Soviet General Secretary and resigned from ...
Mr Gorbachev’s death at the age of 91 has inspired an outpouring of tributes from world leaders. Many made reference to the timing of his death during the worst period of relations between ...
Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate in April 1986 Gorbachev addressing UN General Assembly session, 1988 Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as well as the Gorbachevs in the Cross Hall of the White House before a state dinner, 8 December 1987. This is a list of international trips made by Mikhail Gorbachev as the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was behind the United States in many areas of production, [58] but Gorbachev claimed that it would accelerate industrial output to match that of the US by 2000. [59] The Five Year Plan of 1985–1990 was targeted to expand machine building by 50 to 100%. [ 60 ]
Gorbachev's very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. Co-owned by Gorbachev, it was forced to shut under ...
The Malta Summit was a meeting between United States President George H. W. Bush and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on December 2–3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It followed a meeting that included Ronald Reagan in New York in December 1988.