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e. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988 ...
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and ...
Aug 31, 2022 · Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who tried to modernize and liberalize USSR society before overseeing the empire’s fall in 1991, died this week. ... But it was Gorbachev who, from the apex ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Mikhail Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931, Privolnoye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died August 30, 2022, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet official, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and promoting ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the Stavropol region of southern Russia. His parents both worked on collective farms and the young Gorbachev operated combine harvesters ...
Aug 31, 2022 · Published 7:45 AM PDT, August 31, 2022. A timeline of major events in the life of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at age 91. March 2, 1931: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev born in Privolnoye in southern Russia. 1950: Admitted to Moscow State University, the Soviet Union’s top university.
