# Mikhail Gorbachev

> The man who tried to save the Soviet Union by opening it up - and watched it dissolve instead. Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika unshackled speech, ended the Cold War, and set off forces that tore apart the state he meant to preserve.

*Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931-2022)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/mikhail-gorbachev

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Russia
- **Born:** 1931-03-02
- **Died:** 2022-08-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1931 to peasants in the North Caucasus, Gorbachev grew up under Stalin, drove combine harvesters on a collective farm, then climbed the Party ladder through law school at Moscow State and posts in Stavropol, where he oversaw canal construction and became first party secretary in 1970. By 1985, after three Soviet leaders died in quick succession, the Politburo made him general secretary. Convinced reform was the only way to preserve the system, he withdrew from Afghanistan, held summits with Reagan to wind down the nuclear standoff, and launched glasnost and perestroika to decentralize the economy and open the press. His democratization fractured the one-party state; when Warsaw Pact nations broke away in 1989, he let them go. He resigned, founded the Gorbachev Foundation, and spent three decades criticizing Yeltsin and Putin while the world debated whether he had freed a region or merely presided over collapse.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 84.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 35.3 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 6.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 75.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 85.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/mgorbachev (@mgorbachev)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329784/ (@nm0329784)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.gorby.ru

## Topics
#Politicians, #Politician, #Politics, #Law, #Economics, #Movies, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2022** - Died
- **2018** - Honorary Citizen of Košice
- **2008** - Free Your Mind
- **2005** - Augsburg Peace Prize
- **1999** - Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion
- **1992** - Honorary Citizen of Berlin
- **1990** - Albert Einstein Peace Prize
- **1985** - Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- **1971** - Order of Lenin
- **1931** - Born

## Sources
- [Michaił Gorbaczow](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michai%C5%82_Gorbaczow)
- [Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergejewitsch_Gorbatschow)
- [Mijaíl Gorbachov](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mija%C3%ADl_Gorbachov)
- [Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Michail Gorbačëv](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv)
- [Mikhaïl Gorbatchev](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbatchev)
- [Michail Gorbatsjov](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatsjov)
- [Mikhail Gorbatchov](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatchov)
- [米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B1%B3%E5%93%88%E4%BC%8A%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%88%88%E5%B0%94%E5%B7%B4%E4%B9%94%E5%A4%AB)
- [ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%95)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Mikhail%20Gorbachev)
- [میخائیل قورباچوف](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D9%81)
- [Mikhail Gorbachov](https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachov)
- [ምኻይል ጎርባቾቭ](https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%9D%E1%8A%BB%E1%8B%AD%E1%88%8D_%E1%8C%8E%E1%88%AD%E1%89%A3%E1%89%BE%E1%89%AD)
- [মিখাইল গৰ্বাচেভ](https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD)
- [मिखाइल गोर्बाचोव](https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5)
- [Mikhaíl Gorbachov](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%ADl_Gorbachov)
- [Michail Gorbatschow](https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatschow)
- [Михаил Горбачов](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%B2)
- [Міхаіл Сяргеевіч Гарбачоў](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%9E)
- [ميخائيل جورباتشوف](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81)
- [মিখাইল গর্বাচেভ](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD)
- [Mikhail Gorbatchev](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatchev)
- [Mihail Gorbačov](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C4%8Dov)
- [Mikhaïl Gorbatxov](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbatxov)
- [Wikiquote](https://as.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD)
- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mixail_Qorba%C3%A7ov)
- [Міхаіл Гарбачоў](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%9E)

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