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Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
In an interview with a Russian news outlet, Mikhail Gorbachev viewed the Capitol riot as a dark omen for the future of the US. (businessinsider.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union before it dissolved in 1991. (businessinsider.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who signed the INF treaty in 1987, says there will be no winner in a nuclear-weapons free-for-all. (businessinsider.com)
Cold War leaders Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have been kidnapped by militant extremists. (metacritic.com)
But is Hassan Rouhani really another Mikhail Gorbachev - another leader of a dictatorship with whom the U.S. can (and should) "do business," in Margaret Thatcher's phrase? (latimes.com)
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says he will relay a conversation he had with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Russian President Vladimir Putin. (rferl.org)
The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died in Moscow at the age of 91. (yahoo.com)
MOSCOW (AP) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has "exhausted" his potential as Russia's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev declared Thursday, saying Putin's inability to change the Kremlin's political system might prompt more massive anti-government protests. (salon.com)
FILE - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves from the Red Square tribune during a Revolution Day celebration, in Moscow, Soviet Union, Nov. 7, 1989. (voanews.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the demise of the Soviet Union and helped end decades of Cold War fear, earning a Nobel Peace Prize and the lasting enmity of millions of Russians bitter about the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the world's largest country, has died at age 91. (voanews.com)
FILE - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev attends the parade marking the World War II anniversary in Moscow, May 9, 2017. (voanews.com)
FILE - Then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then Cuban leader Fidel Castro wave from an open top car as it drives through Havana's Revolution Square, April 2, 1989. (voanews.com)
14 December 1984: Mikhail Gorbachev, heir apparent to the then Soviet general secretary Konstantin Chernenko, paid a visit to London. (newstatesman.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev vs. USSR. (pravda.ru)
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with amazing seriousness stated the obvious, summarizing his statements with shocking conclusions. (pravda.ru)
Mikhail Gorbachev in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel said that the ruling party in Russia is more like the Communist Party and is pulling the country into the past. (pravda.ru)
20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev warns of a possible return to the past," the newspaper reported on its website. (pravda.ru)
This would have been acceptable if Mikhail Gorbachev had not perceived this development negatively. (pravda.ru)
All of this, not without the help of Mikhail Gorbachev, was lost while switching from a socialist to a capitalist formation. (pravda.ru)
What is the model that Mikhail Gorbachev suggests for today's Russia? (pravda.ru)
Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday expressed his deepest condolences on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev , Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax news agency. (yahoo.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, who attempted bold reforms upon assuming leadership of the Soviet Union in 1985 and oversaw its dissolution in 1991, died at 91 on Tuesday, according to Russian state media. (axios.com)
In an interview with The Guardian, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses what he sees as the inevitability of political reform in China, as well as the fall of the USSR and his views on his successors. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
Mikhail Gorbachev is now the ''second-secretary'' of the Soviet Communist Party Politburo and is the ''probable'' candidate to succeed Konstantin Chernenko as the leader of Soviet Union. (csmonitor.com)
These comments, from a senior party official, confirm that 53-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev - the youngest member of the ruling Politburo - is now effectively the second-in-command in the Kremlin hierarchy. (csmonitor.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president by the Supreme Soviet. (upi.com)
MOSCOW -- Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president by the Supreme Soviet today, giving him full control of both the Communist Party and the government in a sweeping two-day shakeup of the Kremlin leadership. (upi.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, was unanimously elected today president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.,' the Tass news agency said. (upi.com)
The root of the problems that undermine the relationship between the US and Russia lies in Washington's self-declared "victory in the Cold War," former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev said at the opening ceremony of the sculptural composition "Gorbachev and Reagan" in Moscow. (pravda.ru)
In Oliver Stone's documentary "The Putin Interviews," the Russian president stated that Mikhail Gorbachev made a mistake by not securing guarantees of NATO's non-expansion to the east . (pravda.ru)
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Monday the United States cast aside international law by going to war in Iraq without United Nations approval. (ksl.com)
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold. (hnn.us)
United States President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush meeting with Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev on Governors Island, New York, 7 December 1988. (eurasiareview.com)
FPRI ) - Mikhail Gorbachev-the last leader of the Soviet Union, architect of perestroika and glasnost , and Nobel Peace Prize winner- passed away recently . (eurasiareview.com)
Since he resigned as president of the Soviet Union in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev used to say that he may have lost as a politician, but perestroika had won. (eurasiareview.com)
Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. (history.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. (bbc.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev was a one-of-a kind statesman,' UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said. (bbc.com)
Associated Press staff members Sergei Fedotov, left, Lynn Berry and Vladimir Kondrashov, right, pose for a photo with Mikhail Gorbachev, second from left, on Nov. 27, 2008, after an interview at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. (ktar.com)
When news hit that Mikhail Gorbachev had died at age 91, Associated Press journalists around the world began sharing their "Gorby" stories from covering the last Soviet leader or interviewing him in Russia or abroad in the three decades that followed. (ktar.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, greets lawmakers in Statuary Hall after his address to Congress on May 14, 1992. (rollcall.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the 89-year-old former leader of the Soviet Union, receives Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky at his house just outside Moscow. (crossingeurope.at)
Mikhail Gorbachev R.I.P. (paulcraigroberts.org)
Mikhail Gorbachev was the first President of the Soviet Union and the last Soviet leader. (paulcraigroberts.org)
This is a different take on Mikhail Gorbachev, who died this week. (ottmarliebert.com)
You probably remember two world leaders who had something of a rivalry going on: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. (co-optimus.com)
President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with Mikhail Gorbachev at the signing ceremony to ratify the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. (stanford.edu)
Reaction after former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - who helped to end the Cold War - dies at the age of 91. (sky.com)
Mikhail Gorbachev did not intend to bring about the fall of the Soviet Union - his role in ending communism was more accident than design. (sky.com)
President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev giving a speech. (gettyimages.com)
OTTAWA, CANADA - 30 MAY 1990: President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev giving a speech during his visit to Ottawa, Canada, on 30th May 1990. (gettyimages.com)
According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91 after a long illness. (nhpr.org)
Spokesman for the Soviet Union 's former president Mikhail Gorbachev has refused to comment on the Vilnius court's ruling to question him in the January 13 attempted coup trial. (delfi.lt)
MOSCOW (AP) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. (wbrz.com)
But this time, unlike 1975 when Helsinki hosted the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, or 1990 when President George Bush met President Mikhail Gorbachev met in the same city for a path-breaking U.S. - Soviet summit, the leaders arriving in Helsinki will be working on a new aspect of security, one that will better protect the world from infectious disease threats. (cdc.gov)
I mean, no knowledgeable person ever accused Mikhail Gorbachev of being crazy, loony, or "not all there. (medscape.com)

Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 and is often seen as an admirable or even heroic figure in the West, in large part because he allowed the Soviet sphere to break apart peacefully. (axios.com)
Additionally, Novaya Gazeta - the independent newspaper that Gorbachev used his Nobel Peace Prize money to help found in the early 1990s - was forced to suspend publication in March when it was threatened by a wartime censorship law. (ihavenet.com)
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. (wbrz.com)

Gorbachev led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. (salon.com)
But Gorbachev, who became Soviet leader in 1985, had promoted Gromyko to the the post rather than take it himself. (upi.com)
Gorbachev coined the word " perestroika " early in his tenure as General Secretary of the Communist Party, which began in March 1985. (eurasiareview.com)
Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. (bbc.com)
Mr Gorbachev became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and de facto leader of the country, in 1985. (bbc.com)
Gorbachev came to power in 1985 with no less of a goal than to transform the Soviet Union and the lives of his fellow citizens, many still desperately poor. (ktar.com)
Widely acclaimed in the West, but reviled by many at home, Gorbachev took power in 1985. (ihavenet.com)
Many of the changes, including the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gorbachev had envisioned when he became the Soviet leader in March 1985. (wbrz.com)

Gorbachev spoke in Moscow on November 21 at a presentation of his new book, 'After The Kremlin. (rferl.org)
The Central Clinical Hospital on the outskirts of Moscow told the state news agency Tass that Gorbachev died Tuesday night "after a serious and prolonged illness. (voanews.com)
It was hard for reporters in Moscow to get close enough to Gorbachev to ask those questions. (ktar.com)
For journalists working in Moscow, Gorbachev was of interest mainly as the anniversaries of the 1991 pivotal events rolled around. (ktar.com)
Gorbachev was still in power when Venediktov's liberal radio station, Echo of Moscow, first went on the air in 1990 -- and it came to symbolize Russia's newfound freedoms. (ihavenet.com)
Only 54 when he took office, Gorbachev was easily the most dynamic figure seen in Moscow for nearly 30 years, with the confidence to speak openly on the public stage with foreign leaders such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. (stanford.edu)
She continues, "My only personal encounter with Gorbachev came many years later, when I worked in Moscow as director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. (stanford.edu)

Reagan Gorbachev undeniably has character, and really runs with its absurd premise, delivering a decent arcadey Hotline Miami-like. (metacritic.com)
By mid-1988, standing on Red Square no less, Reagan had declared that the Soviet Union was no longer an 'evil empire,' and in December 1989, at a summit meeting in Malta, Bush and Gorbachev announced that the cold war was over. (hnn.us)
Both Reagan and Gorbachev, however, expressed satisfaction with the summit, which ended on November 21. (history.com)
Reagan also realized that Gorbachev was limited in his ability to end the Cold War by distrustful elements in the Politburo. (paulcraigroberts.org)
Reagan convinced the distinguished American pianist, Van Cliburn, to come out of retirement and perform for Gorbachev in the White House. (paulcraigroberts.org)
The Soviet Union collapsed, not because of Reagan, but because the hardline Communists, disturbed, as is understandable, by Gorbachev's trust in Washington's word, attempted a coup and placed Gorbachev under house arrest. (paulcraigroberts.org)
Gorbachev, believing as did Reagan, in the futility of the Cold War, trusted that the conflict was over. (paulcraigroberts.org)
In view of the Democrat Clinton regime's overthrowing the Reagan-Gorbachev ending of the Cold War with a New Cold War, now greatly expanded under the Democrat Biden, the Kremlin's toleration of the West's declared aggressive intentions against Russia is puzzling. (paulcraigroberts.org)
Games are full of alternative histories, but have you seen Reagan and Gorbachev fight side by side before? (co-optimus.com)
Those with an Ouya may have in 2014, but for the rest of us we have had to wait until February 24th 2016 to play the 2 player local co-op game Reagan Gorbachev . (co-optimus.com)
President Ronald Reagan speaks to the American public about his meetings in Iceland with the leader of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Gorbachev. (millercenter.org)
In Reagan and Gorbachev , Jack F. Matlock, Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and principal adviser to Ronald Reagan on Soviet and European affairs, gives an eyewitness account of how the Cold War ended. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
When Gorbachev assumed leadership, however, Reagan and his advisers found a willing partner in peace. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
Matlock shows how both leaders took risks that yielded great rewards and offers unprecedented insight into the often cordial working relationship between Reagan and Gorbachev. (penguinrandomhouse.com)
Both epic and intimate, Reagan and Gorbachev will be the standard reference on the end of the Cold War, a work that is critical to our understanding of the present and the past. (penguinrandomhouse.com)

If he does not overcome himself, change the way things are - and I think it will be difficult for him to do that - then everything will end up on city squares," Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, said at a news conference. (salon.com)

Gorbachev said of Putin: "He won't carry that weight. (salon.com)
Gorbachev recently urged Putin to give up power and annul the results of December's fraud-tainted parliamentary vote, which triggered the anti-Putin rallies. (salon.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a condolence telegram Wednesday that Gorbachev "deeply understood" the need to reform the Soviet system and that he "strove to offer his own solutions to urgent problems. (voanews.com)
It was a result that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who rose to power less than a decade after Gorbachev resigned and remains in the Kremlin today, once called the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century. (voanews.com)
He regards what Gorbachev did during his years in power contributed to the total collapse of the USSR, which Putin regrets," he said. (sky.com)

Gorbachev survived a coup attempt in August 1991, but by then his authority was crumbling. (axios.com)
Before July 1991, there were two military-political blocs - NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and Warsaw Pact member countries did not raise this issue," Gorbachev said. (pravda.ru)
Perestroika, as Gorbachev called his reforms, officially ended with the Soviet Union and his leadership in December 1991. (hnn.us)
In 1991, after a shambolically organised coup by communist hardliners failed, Mr Gorbachev agreed to dissolve the Soviet Union and left office. (bbc.com)
Friedman had seen a more amiable, if wistful, Gorbachev at a going-away party for his staff on Dec. 26, 1991, the day after his nationally televised address in which he announced his resignation as president. (ktar.com)
In one of the low points of his tenure, Gorbachev sanctioned a crackdown on the restive Baltic republics in early 1991. (wbrz.com)

Gorbachev commented on Putin's remarks in the documentary. (pravda.ru)
Most recently, Mr Gorbachev was said to have been unhappy with Mr Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, even though he had supported the annexation of Crimea in 2014. (bbc.com)
Robert Service, an author and professor of Russian history, told Sky News that while Mr Putin's statement about Mr Gorbachev was respectful, he has been indirectly disrespectful to his predecessor over the years. (sky.com)

Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party at age 54, bringing a new dynamism to the Kremlin after a period of stagnation under a succession of aging leaders. (axios.com)

Now, according to the party official, Gorbachev is chairing meetings of the party Secretariat - composed of the secretaries that head the party's professional staff departments - as well as continuing to oversee economic reforms implemented by Yuri Andropov. (csmonitor.com)
Fairly quickly, Gorbachev realized that cosmetic reforms of economy could not save it, so he went to introduce private business activity through a series of legislation (i.e., on state enterprises and on cooperatives ) and partial privatization of the state property. (eurasiareview.com)
For Gorbachev, the meeting was another clear signal of his desire to obtain better relations with the United States so that he could better pursue his domestic reforms.Little of substance was accomplished. (history.com)
Although a pragmatic and rational politician, Gorbachev failed to realise that it was impossible to bring in reforms without destroying a centralised communist system that millions in the Soviet Union and beyond no longer wanted. (ihavenet.com)
I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world," Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office. (wbrz.com)
Russia was a democracy in the 1990s, and Gorbachev helped to introduce those political reforms. (wkms.org)

Gorbachev in 1989. (axios.com)
For example, when Gorbachev visited Beijing in 1989, student protesters in Tiananmen Square hailed the Soviet leader as a hero, parading through the streets of Beijing with banners asking "Where is China's Gorbachev? (ihavenet.com)

Gorbachev is often praised in the West for his role in bringing about a peaceful end to the Cold War, but he has a complicated legacy in Russia. (businessinsider.com)
Born in a rural corner of Russia less than 15 years after the Bolshevik Revolution to parents whose families had been peasants, Gorbachev became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, gathering global accolades for his role in reducing the threat of a nuclear apocalypse and in freeing millions of people from Soviet oppression in his country and beyond. (voanews.com)
Born on March 2, 1931, into a poor family in Privolnoye, a village in southern Russia's Stavropol region, Gorbachev grew up amid the immense upheavals that roiled the Soviet Union in the first two decades of his life: collectivization, Stalin's "Great Terror," and the Great Patriotic War, as World War II is best known within Russia. (voanews.com)
Gorbachev praised resistance to the war in the U.N. Security Council by Russia, France and Germany, telling reporters the three countries 'showed great responsibility and were correct. (ksl.com)
These five years have proved all that I said - that the breakup of the Soviet Union would bring grave calamity for Russia and all the other republics," Gorbachev said. (ktar.com)
In Russia Gorbachev is not seen as the great leader that he was. (paulcraigroberts.org)
The last leader of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev ushered in what many in the West and Russia hoped would be a new era of democracy and development following the dismantling of the Iron Curtain and opening of Russia to Western markets and development. (stanford.edu)
FADEL: Now, when you look at Russia today, on the opposite side of conflict with Western powers, the U.S. - I'm thinking about Syria, Iraq and, of course, Russia's war on Ukraine - did Gorbachev actually end the Cold War, or did he simply start a temporary thaw in U.S.-Russian relations? (wkms.org)

Gorbachev, the former president of the USSR, looked at me, looked at my tape recorder and said, 'This we don't need! (ktar.com)
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country. (wbrz.com)

Anatoly Lukyanov, who attended law school with Gorbachev and was made a non-voting member of the Politburo Friday, was named vice president of the nominal parliament. (upi.com)
In the ad, he should take a pizza, divide it into 15 slices like he divided up our country, and then show how to put it back together again," quipped Anatoly Lukyanov, a one-time Gorbachev supporter. (wbrz.com)

Gorbachev was a politician and statesman who had a huge impact on the course of world history. (voanews.com)
US President Joe Biden called him a 'rare leader' and praised Mr Gorbachev as a unique politician who had the 'imagination to see that a different future was possible' amid the tensions of the Cold War. (bbc.com)

David Ehrlich of IndieWire "ultimately because of Gorbachev's seeming unwillingness to fit the director's usual mold that Meeting Gorbachev is able to become such a different and engaging bio-doc. (wikipedia.org)
Gorbachev appears with, from left, Sen. George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, Gorbachev's longtime translator Pavel Palazchenko and Speaker Tom Foley at a luncheon in Statuary Hall following his address to Congress on May 14, 1992. (rollcall.com)

Gorbachev sought to modernize the economy and liberalize society through his trademark policies of perestroika and glasnost. (axios.com)
Gorbachev, in remarks to the plenary session of the Supreme Soviet, said he would continue to 'apply every effort to effect the policy of perestroika, or restructuring,' Tass said. (upi.com)
Perestroika has entered a new and crucial phase,' Gorbachev told the parliament. (upi.com)
The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. (hnn.us)
Soon after taking power, Gorbachev began a campaign to end his country's economic and political stagnation, using "glasnost" or openness, to help achieve his goal of "perestroika" or restructuring. (wbrz.com)

Senate pages pose for a photo with Gorbachev in March 2009. (rollcall.com)

What we did not realize was that hardline elements of the Soviet Communist Party thought that Gorbachev was making too many concessions to the West too soon without sufficient reciprocal concessions and guarantees. (paulcraigroberts.org)

Former President Jimmy Carter and Gorbachev attend graduation ceremonies at Emory University in Atlanta in May 1992. (rollcall.com)
Gorbachev, center, walks from the Capitol to the Library of Congress with Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., after his address on May 14, 1992. (rollcall.com)

Mr. Gorbachev, however, has not been given sole responsiblity for party ideology. (csmonitor.com)

Gorbachev was a towering figure in world politics in the late 20th century, and after he left that stage, he often visited Capitol Hill and other parts of the U.S. throughout the 1990s and 2000s. (rollcall.com)

Russian state media quoted the Central Clinical Hospital as saying that Gorbachev 'died this evening after a serious and long illness. (axios.com)
The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness. (wbrz.com)

The film features three interviews between Herzog and Gorbachev, conducted over the span of six months, and had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018. (wikipedia.org)

The headline in Deutsche Welle: "Gorbachev warned Russians on the return to the Soviet past" is quite telling. (pravda.ru)

U.S. President Joe Biden said in a statement late Tuesday that Gorbachev "was a man of remarkable vision. (voanews.com)
President Biden was among the world leaders to pay tribute to Gorbachev, calling him 'a man of remarkable vision' and 'a rare leader,' who had 'the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career' to achieve it. (axios.com)

According to the first and last Soviet president , the USA decided to declare its own victory in the Cold War, and "this is the root of the errors and failures that have undermined the foundation of new relations between our countries," Gorbachev said. (pravda.ru)
Gorbachev is seen in the West as an architect of reform who created the conditions for the end of the Cold War. (ihavenet.com)
Gorbachev played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, and many blame him for the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he had tried to reform. (nhpr.org)
He had his Gorbachev Foundation, which tended to his legacy and promoted many of his ideas of world peace and trying to preserve the arms control deals of the late Cold War period. (nhpr.org)

Senate Democrats appear with Gorbachev in the Capitol in March 2009. (rollcall.com)

Gorbachev also understood that the repressions and hardships of the Soviet years were unnecessary, and he with advisors, some of whom I met and engaged in discussion, attempted to reform the Soviet system. (paulcraigroberts.org)

Gorbachev shakes a hand during a luncheon in the Capitol's Cannon Caucus Room in April 1993. (rollcall.com)

By assuming the presidency, Gorbachev eliminates the awkward position of being Soviet leader but not the official head of state. (upi.com)
I believe that Gorbachev was an evil man, like every Soviet leader before him. (ottmarliebert.com)
Mr Gorbachev was not a leader who had the stomach to send in tanks or soldiers - there'd be no repeat of what happened following the Hungarian uprising of 1956, or the Prague Spring of 1968. (sky.com)
As most of you know, I've just returned from meetings in Iceland with the leader of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Gorbachev. (millercenter.org)
Is this a reversal of everything Gorbachev was trying to do when he was a leader? (wkms.org)

Gorbachev made clear he never meant to bring down the country, repeating almost as a mantra that "the union could have been preserved. (voanews.com)
Mr Gorbachev made one ill-fated attempt to return to political life in 1996, receiving just 0.5% of the vote in presidential elections. (bbc.com)

Arnold Schwarzenegger remembered Gorbachev as having the wisdom and courage to dismantle the Soviet Union, so many others saw him as an opportunist who simply took advantage of the prevailing wind of thought. (ottmarliebert.com)
Gorbachev never set out to dismantle the Soviet system. (wbrz.com)

In any case, Gorbachev will rank alongside such towering 20th-century figures as Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong - leaders who changed the fate of nations and had a profound impact on the lives of millions of people. (voanews.com)
Few leaders have had such a profound effect on the global order, but Mr Gorbachev did not come to power seeking to end the Soviet grip over eastern Europe. (bbc.com)

The success of these policies was limited because they were resisted by the apparatchiks - the communist bureaucrats - but there is no question that Gorbachev sent a signal that the old days of repression at home and adventurism abroad were at an end. (latimes.com)
That same year, as revolts rippled across Eastern Europe, Gorbachev allowed the fall of communist regimes from East Berlin to Warsaw. (latimes.com)
Among his mistakes as head of the Soviet state, Gorbachev in an interview named the following: "I have failed to timely disband the Communist Party. (pravda.ru)
Gorbachev, who had mostly avoided violence in dealing with protests in the Soviet Union, never publicly condemned or questioned the Chinese Communist Party's decision to call in the military. (ihavenet.com)
Gorbachev thought about it for a moment and then said, 'During the Soviet era, at least the Communist Party Central Committee kept them under control. (stanford.edu)

AP correspondent Brian Friedman also got the Gorbachev treatment. (ktar.com)

Still, it appears that when Andropov died in February, Gorbachev had amassed enough power to broker second place for himself. (csmonitor.com)
Since Gorbachev assumed power, the average age of the Politburo has declined from just under 70 years of age to 62 years. (upi.com)
It was mostly the amiable Gorbachev who greeted correspondents in his years out of power. (ktar.com)
Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. (wbrz.com)

Gorbachev became a darling of the international community because of his role in bringing down the Iron Curtain, in stopping possible nuclear war, really. (wkms.org)

Gorbachev, an agricultural specialist, has risen rapidly since attaining full Politburo membership in 1980. (csmonitor.com)
Vadim Medvedev, who rose from obscurity to be elected one of 12 full voting members of the Politburo, Friday termed the personnel changes as a clear-cut victory for Gorbachev. (upi.com)

It seems, however, that the ex-general secretary of the CPSU Gorbachev sees political modernization through the prism of the widest, pluralistic multi-party system- just like Academician Sakharov. (pravda.ru)

Apparently, Gorbachev himself did not realize it. (paulcraigroberts.org)

During the next few years, Gorbachev built his foundation, a think tank designed to defend his legacy, and he toured the world, often drawing huge enthusiastic crowds. (ktar.com)

Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world. (hnn.us)
And that left Gorbachev president of a country that no longer existed. (nhpr.org)
FADEL: In the few seconds we have left, you knew Gorbachev personally. (wkms.org)

Gorbachev has acknowledged that Moscow's own decade-long campaign in Afghanistan was a failed deployment that hindered the country in its final years. (businessinsider.com)
And in retrospect, a dozen years after the Soviet Union was done, Gorbachev insisted that those momentous changes were the result of a conscious and very personal decision. (voanews.com)
The years of relaxation and freedom under Gorbachev, "those years are over", he said. (sky.com)

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19922

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20181

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