What is Mikhail Gorbachev like in person?

People mostly develop their attention to political leaders emotionally, based on what a person says and what he does on public. Gorbachev is really looking like a spy. During his era, he would play a fool giving several-hour speeches with a 'worke... read more

I was part of Gorbachev’s 100+ team tasked with his PR in connection with his visit to Norway in June 1991 where he received his Nobel Peace Prize. He was far over my head, no working connection whatsoever. read more

Archie Brown, in The Gorbachev Factor, uses the memoirs of many people around Gorbachev and in the upper echelons of the Soviet political landscape, to implicate General Valentin Varennikov, a member of the August coup plotters, and General Vladislav Achalov, another August coup conspirator. read more

Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. In 1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. read more