This was the task we set to our experts. The Politburo unanimously endorsed this approach. As a result of discussions, we developed a concept which was set out in the Directives I took with me to ...

Under the guidance of senior Communist Party officials Gorbachev was rapidly promoted to the Soviet Union’s executive committee, the Politburo. Becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union By ...

Under the guidance of senior Communist Party officials Gorbachev was rapidly promoted to the Soviet Union’s executive committee, the Politburo. Becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union By ...

In 1983 Gorbachev, then the youngest member of the politburo, visited Canada and spent long hours in private conversation with Aleksandr Yakovlev, then the ambassador in Ottawa. The two men talked ...

When Mikhail Gorbachev turned 91 years old on March 2, Russia was in the early stages of its invasion of Ukraine. The escalation of the Ukrainian crisis into a war, about 30 years after the end of ...

Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for ... took over Soviet agricultural policy in 1978, and became a full Politburo member in 1980. Along the way he was able to travel to the West, to ...