2022

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...