The 21st century will be either a century of total aggravation of the deadly crisis, or a century of moral purification and spiritual recovery of mankind. Its comprehensive revival. I am convinced that all of us — all reasonable political forces, all spiritual and ideological currents, all faiths — are called upon to promote this transition, the victory of humanity and justice. To ensure that the XXI century becomes the century of rebirth, the century of Man.
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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. The goal of the prize-winning editor and jour...
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 achieveme...
December 12, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev remembered by Pavel Palazhchenko
2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022The 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 m...
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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&rd...
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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 p...
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 ...
Gorbachev. Perestroika. Results.
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Preface"He was modest, but he was aware of his historical greatness!" Bettina Schaefer reads excerpts from her book "Mikhail Gorbachev: how he changed our lives."








