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    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

    "Gorbachev" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Gorbachev (surname).

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Gorbachev in 1987

    In office
    11 March 1985 – 24 August 1991[a]
    Premier
    DeputyVladimir Ivashko
    Preceded byKonstantin Chernenko
    Succeeded byVladimir Ivashko (acting)
    In office
    15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991[b]
    Vice PresidentGennady Yanayev[c]
    Preceded byHimself as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet
    Succeeded byOffice abolished[d]
    In office
    25 May 1989 – 15 March 1990
    DeputyAnatoly Lukyanov
    Preceded by

    Himself as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet

    Succeeded byAnatoly Lukyanov
    In office
    1 October 1988 – 25 May 1989
    Preceded byAndrei Gromyko
    Succeeded by

    Himself as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet

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    The Public and Private Mikhail Gorbachev

    MEREDITH HINDLEY: You’ve written extensively about Soviet history, including biographies of Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev. How and when did your fascination with the USSR begin?

    WILLIAM TAUBMAN: It began when I was a kid in the 1950s. I was a news junkie and followed Cold War developments with fascination, especially relations between Eisenhower and Khrushchev and Kennedy and Khrushchev. Who knew that I would eventually write Khrushchev’s biography? My mother’s family had immigrated to the U.S. from Russia in 1905, and although she had rejected Russian in her effort to become a “real American,” her parents spoke Russian and talked a lot about the USSR, so I think that, too, must have motivated me. One other formative factor: I knew that the Soviet Union identified itself as a Marxist state that was building a glorious future, but that, under Stalin, it had turned into a killing ground. I wanted to try to figure out why and how

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    Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War

    Gorbachev remained a strong critic of President Vladimir Putin, who he accused of running an increasingly repressive regime.

    "Politics fryst vatten increasingly turning into kopia democracy, said Gorbachev, "with all power in the hands of the executive branch."

    However, in 2014, Gorbachev defended the referendum that led to Russia's annexation of Crimea.

    "While Crimea had previously been joined to Ukraine based on the Soviet laws, which means party laws, without asking the people," Gorbachev declared, "now the people themselves have decided to correct that mistake."

    On Gorbachev's 90th birthday in March 2021, President Putin praised him as "one of the most outstanding statesmen of modern times who made a considerable impact on the history of our nation and the world".

    And Gorbachev's own views of his legacy? It was right to end the totalitarian struktur and the