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September 22, 2025
Mikhail Gorbachev: How he changed our lives
On August 30, 2022, President Mikhail Gorbachev passed away. Two days later, Bettina Schaefer begins work on the German edition of this book.
August 29, 2023
Mikhail Gorbachev: A Transcendent Spirit for a New World Civilization
by M.S. Karlen, Editor, CDAC (Comprehensive Dialogue among Civilizations, Geneva) August, 23, 2023 Reflections on Mikhail Gorbachev, his life and achievements, one year after his passing I have been reading...
December 12, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko
2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022 The former Soviet leader’s longtime interpreter remembers an optimist who wanted to achieve his goals by persuasion, not force, and knew that he was a man of history. It’s become a kind of a stereotype that...
October 29, 2022
Disparaging Gorbachev, Distorting Perestroika: Lessons of the Cold War’s End
by Robert David English Disparaging Gorbachev, Distorting Perestroika: Lessons of the Cold War’s End Characterizations of Gorbachev as a “quintessential apparatchik” or a blood-stained “totalitarian” who...
August 31, 2022
2.III.1931 — 30.VIII.2022
March 1, 2022
Statement of the Gorbachev Foundation
February 26, 2022 In connection with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, begun on February 24, we affirm the need for an early cessation of hostilities and immediate start of peace negotiations. There is nothing more precious in the world...
February 4, 2022
Last year, the magazine Russia in Global Affairs published Mikhail Gorbachev’s essay Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective, which evoked considerable interest and response among scholars and students of Perestroika.
Below are links to the essay and some of the comments. Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retprospective More than three and a half decades have passed since the start of the process of change in the Soviet Union known throughout the...
November 29, 2021
The Moscow Times: Archie Brown is Awarded the Pushkin House Book Prize
Last night in London, the 9th Pushkin House Book Prize was awarded to Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, for “The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War,” published...
November 15, 2021
Address to the Conference on Nuclear Disarmament
In a written address to the conference in Kazakhstan’s capital, which opened today, Mikhail Gorbachev welcomed the initiative of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, to create a Global Alliance of Leaders for Nuclear...
June 11, 2021
Archie Brown. Re-evaluation of the huge achievements of the perestroika years, as well as the failures during them and since, is an unfinished task
Then and Now Archie Brown.Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford. His most recent book isThe Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War(Oxford University Press, 2020). At the end of the 1980s there...
May 20, 2018
The Round Table: "From the Prague Spring to Perestroika"
October 27, 2017
Round Table “The 1917 Russian Revolution for Our Country and the World: 100 Years’ Retrospect”
October 5, 2017
The Expertise Round Table. Perception of Russia across the East and West: Memory, Identity and Conflicts. International Study of Images of Russia across Eurasia: Results and Discussion