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| | MSN Encarta - Gorbachev |
 | | Gorbachev was born to peasant parents in the village of Privol’noye, in the agrarian Stavropol’ Territory in southwestern Russia. | | | Gorbachev was admitted to law school at Moscow State University in 1950, partly because of his ability and hard work and partly because of his humble origins and his status as a probationary member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), a rarity for one so young. | | | In addition to Kulakov, Gorbachev enjoyed the confidence of Mikhail Suslov, who served as senior secretary for ideology of the CPSU, and of Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, or State Security Committee). |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gorbachev studied law at Moscow University, where he met his future wife, Raisa. | | | This proved to be the most far-reaching of Gorbachev's foreign policy reforms, with his Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov jokingly calling his new doctrine the Sinatra Doctrine. | | | Gorbachev accused Boris Yeltsin, his old rival and Russia's first post-Soviet president, of tearing the country apart out of a desire to advance his own personal interests. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol province. | | | Mikhail Gorbachev is married to Raisa Gorbacheva (1953), has one daughter, and two granddaugthers. | | | He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1970-1990 and acted as Chairman for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Soviet of the Union in 1984-85. |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | In October 1988 Gorbachev was able to consolidate his power by his election to the chairmanship of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet (the national legislature). | | | In May 1989 Gorbachev was elected chairman of this Supreme Soviet and thereby retained the national presidency. | | | The new freedoms arising from Gorbachev's democratization and decentralization of his nation's political system led to civil unrest in several of the constituent republics (e.g., Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan) and to outright attempts to achieve independence in others (e.g., Lithuania). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037405?tocId=9037405
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Gorbachev studied for a second degree at the Stavropol Agricultural Institute (1964-67) and in 1970 was appointed First Secretary for Stavropol Territory. | | | In 1955 Gorbachev he was appointed first secretary of the Komsomol Territorial Committee. | | | In his memoirs Gorbachev argues this incident had a dramatic impact on his political development. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDgorbachev.htm
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| | PWHCE Who's Who of Russia: Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Gorbachev's concessions to hardline demands led his reformist Politburo to abandon him, leaving him politically isolated. | | | Though lionised in the West, Gorbachev's oblivion was confirmed when he received less than one percent of the popular vote in the 1996 Presidential election. | | | His father was a decorated member of the Red Army and a local party official. |
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http://www.pwhce.org/rus/gorbachev.html
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| | Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev & Mikhail Gorbachev Biography Links |
| | Gorbachev's phenomenal success was not all due to his own tenacity but also to the success of Kulakov, his superior throughout Gorbachev's political history in Stavropol. | | | Later that year, Gorbachev received the honor of being appointed to the editorial commission responsible for the final draft of the new Soviet Constitution. | | | His performance continues to warrant his climb and in 1970, he is appointed the First Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom and soon after is elected full member of the Central Committee at the 24th Party Congress. |
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| | Gary Kah - Hope for the world |
| | Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World (New York: Harper and Row, 1987), pp.35, 66. | | | In 1985, following Andropov's death and Konstantin Chernenko's brief term in office, Gorbachev advanced to the position of general secretary of the powerful Politburo. | | | Nixon took special note of the affection which American politicians lavished on Gorbachev: |
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| | CRISIS Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Deal W. Hudson: The United States and its allies are now at war with terrorism. | | | He sat down with Deal W. Hudson in his office in Moscow, underneath a large portrait of his late, beloved wife, Raisa. | | | Mikhail Gorbachev was the final president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 to 1991. |
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http://www.crisismagazine.com/february2002/feature1.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs: Books |
| | In these memoirs Gorbachev reveals his feelings about the sad state of his country today. | | | As with almost all political autobiographies, a certain proportion of the contents are devoted to justifying decisions, opinions and actions of the author. | | | He tells us of his childhood in the North Caucasus during World War II, of coming to Moscow as a student and meeting Raisa Maksimovna, of his glittering career as a Party functionary - and his eventual role as one of the most powerful men in the world. |
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| | Enron: 1997 -- Press Release |
| | Also attending the ceremony will be Gorbachev's daughter, Irina Virganskaya. | | | On hand during the ceremony will be former U.S. secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, Warren Christopher, Cyrus Vance and James A. Baker, III. | | | Gorbachev, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, served as president of the U.S.S.R. from 1990 to 1991, introducing his famous "glasnost" policies which helped put an end to the Cold War and eventually led to the establishment of democracy in Eastern Europe. |
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 11 1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader |
| | Mrs Thatcher has already indicated her approval at his appointment. | | | The British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will attend Chernenko's funeral on Wednesday - but the United States President Ronald Reagan will not be going. | | | Yeltsin continued to attract more support which led eventually to the resignation of Gorbachev on 25 December 1991. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_2538000/2538327.stm
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| | TIME 100: Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | After he stepped down from his position as head of state, many people of course stopped thinking about him, and in Russian history, that in itself is extraordinary. | | | The unusual birthmark on the new General Secretary's forehead, combined with his inexplicably radical actions, gave him a mystical aura. | | | How Gorbachev left power and what he has done since are unique episodes in Russian history, but he could have foreseen his own resignation: he prepared the ground and the atmosphere that made that resignation possible. |
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| | How Reagan won the Cold War. By Fred Kaplan |
| | Gorbachev needed to move swiftly if his reforms were to take hold. | | | Reagan exerted the pressure that forced him to move swiftly and offered the rewards that made his foes and skeptics in the Politburo think the cutbacks might be worth it. | | | On the one hand, documents reveal that Gorbachev asked Yevgeny Velikhov, his chief science adviser, to evaluate whether Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, as it was formally called, would pose a threat. |
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| | CNN.com - Gorbachev slams U.S. 'sickness' - Apr 20, 2005 |
| | It's the law of the jungle," he said. | | | Turner shared Gorbachev's view that the United States was hypocritical. | | | UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, said Wednesday the United States was hypocritical over nuclear armaments and not prepared to disarm its own weapons. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/20/gorb.nuke
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| | National Review: Getting it wrong about Gorby - Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | A couple of days later Major was praising Yeltsin. | | | While recognizing Gorbachev's contribution "over recent years," he stopped short of calling for his reinstatement. | | | Kinnock described Gorbachev's resignation as a leader of the Soviet Communist Party this way: "I believe it will prove another act og greatness from a man who has made so many historic changes possible." |
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| | Temperament in Revolution: Gorbachev |
| | Gorbachev was promoted by Andropov because of his hard work, loyalty, and they had a geninue friendship. | | | Although Brezhnev thought highly of Mikhail Gorbachev, Brezhnev would have preferred to have one of his allies appointed to Kulakov's position of head of agricultural department in the Central Committee. | | | Gorbachev alone was the institigator of change in the Soviet Union, which eventually resulted in his own loss of power. |
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| | CNN Cold War - Profile: Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | At the end of the year, Gorbachev was forced to resign as president of a Soviet Union no longer in existence. | | | Throughout his six years in office, Gorbachev always seemed to be moving too fast for the party establishment, which saw its privileges threatened, and too slow for more radical reformers, who hoped to do away with the one-party state and the command economy. | | | A full Politburo member since 1980, Gorbachev became more influential in 1982 when his mentor, Andropov, succeeded Leonid Brezhnev. |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Gorbachev and his family were briefly held under house arrest between August 19-21, 1991, during a coup by Communist hard-liners. | | | On Dec. 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned the presidency of the Soviet Union, which ceased to exist that same day. | | | Soviet president Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev's efforts to democratize the Soviet Union's political system and decentralize its economy eventually led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev - Nostalgia Central |
| | He was made a member of the Politburo in 1980 and general secretary of the Communist party in 1985. | | | Born in 1931, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev became a member of the Soviet Communist party central committee in 1971. | | | Gorbachev's response was to accumulate formal power in his own hands, precipitating an attempted Communist takeover in August 1991. |
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| | The Epoch Times Gorbachev Expresses Grief for Zhao Ziyang’s Death |
| | Gorbachev said in his memoir that Zhao talked openly about the idea of having multiple parties for communist countries. | | | Zhao was deposed from his positions and put under house arrest soon after Gorbachev’s visit. | | | Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev expressed his grief in a public statement after Zhao Ziyang’s death. |
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| | Lunch with Mikhail Gorbachev at the Mass Software Council |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev and his translator Pavel Palazchenko waiting to be introduced and during the speech (Mr. | | | I ended up sharing a lunch table with ten other people and got to converse with our speaker, Mikhail Gorbachev, his longtime translator, Pavel Palazchenko, and his daughter Irina. | | | Gorbachev got up to leave, as seems to be his style, he shook my hand and gave me a hug. |
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| | Lunch with Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | To my right was Dan Bricklin (creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software), and to his right was Gorbachev's daughter Irina who runs the Gorbachev Foundation. | | | Except perhaps the pathological ones, in which case I fall into the "Peril" camp with Bill Joy and Kackzinski. | | | I was fortunate to have the opportunity to sit next to Gorbachev and his long time translator (Pavel Palazchenko). |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev - A Modern Cyrus? |
| | Despite the turmoil that has occurred under his leadership, Gorbachev is unlike all of the Soviet leaders of the past, who have refused to talk with the heads of state of the free world. | | | Only the two of them and the Soviet president's interpreter heard the conversation. | | | Perhaps history will record that the unseen hand of God moved through Gorbachev and his policy of glasnost to insure the complete destruction of communism - an event scheduled on God's calendar in order to establish His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. |
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http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0669_Gorbachev__A_Modern_.html
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| | Gorbachev--Two Steps Backward? |
| | Faced with the combined threat of economic debacle and dissolution of the union, Gorbachev decided toward the end of last year to streamline the government and strengthen his own position, preparing to take special powers in case of emergency. | | | To grasp his evolution, one must reflect on the limits of his "revolution from above." After an exhilarating start, Gorbachev abandoned his search for a third way between neo-Stalinism and capitalism. | | | What happened between October, when the mood was seemingly one of compromise, and December, when Shevardnadze used his resignation as a tocsin to warn of the danger of dictatorship, is still shrouded in secrecy. |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev — |
| | Whilst President of the USSR his reforms of Perestroika and Glasnost paved the way for the fall of Communism, the reintroduction of democracy to Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. | | | Gorbachev - The Master Key of the Universal Heart by Sri Chinmoy | | | Gorbachev - On My Country and the World |
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| | Commanding Heights : Mikhail Gorbachev on PBS |
| | Having overseen policies aimed at the political and economic restructuring of the Soviet Union, former President Mikhail Gorbachev is credited as one of the architects of the end of the Cold War. | | | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (via interpreter): Well, we recently had a meeting with Mr. | | | You mentioned my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher in December 1984, when Chernenko [Konstantin; Gorbachev's immediate predecessor as general secretary] was still alive. |
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| | DePauw University News |
| | Gorbachev's speech, and his representatives tell me it is not unusual for 5,000 or more people to attend his events," says Ken Owen '82, director of media relations at DePauw and coordinator of the Ubben Lecture Series. | | | As with all Ubben Lectures, Gorbachev's address is free and open to the public (see complete list of past Ubben Lecturers by | | | Read more about Mikhail Gorbachev in this previous story, and visit his personal Web site here. |
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http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=16344
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev - Biography |
| | Kaiser, Robert G. Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and his Failures. | | | Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power London: Macmillan, 1993. | | | (An important scholarly study by a major authority on Gorbachev.) |
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| | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | Find where Mikhail Gorbachev is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Mikhail Gorbachev | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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| | Portrait of the Teacher Idealist |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev is an example of a Teacher Idealist. | | | A full description of the Teacher and the Idealists is in People Patterns or Please Understand Me II |
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