Mikhail Gorbachev: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Gorbachev’s life and achievements are chronicled in Zhores Medvedev, Gorbachev (1986); Christian Schmidt-Häuer, Gorbachev: The Path to Power (1986; originally published in German, 1985); and Dusko Doder and Louise Branson, Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin (1990).
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: Al Jazeera - Mikhail Gorbachev: The rise and fall of the last Soviet leader. | Oct 31, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS News - A look at the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, final leader of the Soviet Union. | Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika. | Nov 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN World - Mikhail Gorbachev Fast Facts. | Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Gorbachev Foundation. | Jul 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Gorbachev's legacy. | Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights - Mikhail Gorbachev : Free Expression, Free Elections, and Democratic Reforms (PDF). | Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Mikhail Gorbachev (1931�2022) � Magnificent Achievements, Monumental Failures. | Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Book Review: Mikhail S. Gorbachev: An Intimate Biography. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Mikhail Gorbachev: The rise and fall of the last Soviet leader. | Apr 15, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wilson Center Digital Archive - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. | Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC News - Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War. | May 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Miller Center - Mikhail Gorbachev: The last Soviet leader. | Apr 07, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Mikhail S. Gorbachev. | Nov 08, 2022 | ||
| He died on August 30, 2022. | Aug 30, 2022 | ||
| Revised birth location. | Mar 16, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 07, 2021 | ||
| Noted that he and Aleksandr Lebedev failed to found their proposed political party and that he supported Russia's annexation of Crimea. | Jun 26, 2018 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Feb 07, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Nobel Prize - Mikhail Gorbachev. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of the Ages - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Cold War Museum - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. | Dec 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. | Jul 21, 2016 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 11, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Dec 05, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev. | Jan 08, 2014 | ||
| Added photographs. | Mar 01, 2011 | ||
| Added photograph. | Mar 16, 2010 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 21, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 06, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 31, 2006 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 31, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: TIME 100: Mikhail Gorbachev. | May 10, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 14, 1999 |
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