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</a> <button aria-controls="toc-Early_CPSU_career-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Early CPSU career subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Early_CPSU_career-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-1955–1969:_Stavropol_Komsomol" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1955–1969:_Stavropol_Komsomol"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>1955–1969: Stavropol Komsomol</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1955–1969:_Stavropol_Komsomol-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1970–1977:_heading_the_Stavropol_region" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1970–1977:_heading_the_Stavropol_region"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>1970–1977: heading the Stavropol region</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1970–1977:_heading_the_Stavropol_region-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Secretary_of_the_Central_Committee_of_CPSU" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Secretary_of_the_Central_Committee_of_CPSU"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Secretary_of_the_Central_Committee_of_CPSU-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1985-1991)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1985-1991)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1985-1991)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unraveling_of_the_USSR" 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id="toc-German_reunification_and_the_Gulf_War" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#German_reunification_and_the_Gulf_War"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>German reunification and the Gulf War</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-German_reunification_and_the_Gulf_War-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-August_coup_and_government_crises" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#August_coup_and_government_crises"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2</span> <span>August coup and government crises</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-August_coup_and_government_crises-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Final_days_and_collapse" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Final_days_and_collapse"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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<div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.1</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16.2</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatschow" title="Michail Gorbatschow – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Michail Gorbatschow" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%88%9D%E1%8A%BB%E1%8B%AD%E1%88%8D_%E1%8C%8E%E1%88%AD%E1%89%A3%E1%89%BE%E1%89%AD" title="ምኻይል ጎርባቾቭ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ምኻይል ጎርባቾቭ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B8-%D0%B8%D4%A5%D0%B0" title="Горбачиов, Михаил Сергеи-иԥа – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="Горбачиов, Михаил Сергеи-иԥа" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Аԥсшәа</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81" title="ميخائيل غورباتشوف – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ميخائيل غورباتشوف" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatchev" title="Mikhail Gorbatchev – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatchev" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD" title="মিখাইল গৰ্বাচেভ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="মিখাইল গৰ্বাচেভ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%ADl_Gorbachov" title="Mikhaíl Gorbachov – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Mikhaíl Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachov" title="Mikhail Gorbachov – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aymar aru</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixail_Qorba%C3%A7ov" title="Mixail Qorbaçov – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Mixail Qorbaçov" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84_%D9%82%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D9%81" title="میخائیل قورباچوف – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="میخائیل قورباچوف" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%96%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD" title="মিখাইল গর্বাচেভ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মিখাইল গর্বাচেভ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachyov" title="Mikhail Gorbachyov – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachyov" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D1%8F%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%9E" title="Міхаіл Сяргеевіч Гарбачоў – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Міхаіл Сяргеевіч Гарбачоў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D1%9E" title="Міхаіл Гарбачоў – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Міхаіл Гарбачоў" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5" title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोव – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोव" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачов – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Михаил Горбачов" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C4%8Dov" title="Mihail Gorbačov – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Mihail Gorbačov" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatchev" title="Mikhail Gorbatchev – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatchev" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbatxov" title="Mikhaïl Gorbatxov – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mikhaïl Gorbatxov" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorba%C4%8Dov" title="Michail Gorbačov – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Michail Gorbačov" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatjov" title="Mikhail Gorbatjov – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatjov" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84_%DA%AD%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%DA%A4" title="ميخايل ڭورباتشوڤ – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="ميخايل ڭورباتشوڤ" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergejewitsch_Gorbatschow" title="Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihhail_Gorbat%C5%A1ov" title="Mihhail Gorbatšov – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mihhail Gorbatšov" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AE%CE%BB_%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%83%CF%8C%CF%86" title="Μιχαήλ Γκορμπατσόφ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μιχαήλ Γκορμπατσόφ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mija%C3%ADl_Gorbachov" title="Mijaíl Gorbachov – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mijaíl Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%C4%A5ail_Gorba%C4%89ov" title="Miĥail Gorbaĉov – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Miĥail Gorbaĉov" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatxov" title="Mikhail Gorbatxov – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatxov" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%81" title="میخائیل گورباچف – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="میخائیل گورباچف" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatjov" title="Mikhail Gorbatjov – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatjov" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbatchev" title="Mikhaïl Gorbatchev – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mikhaïl Gorbatchev" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C3%AFl_Gorbatsjov" title="Michaïl Gorbatsjov – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Michaïl Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADchail_Gorbaitseov" title="Míchail Gorbaitseov – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Míchail Gorbaitseov" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Mihail Gorbačëv – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Mihail Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%88%E7%88%BE%E5%B7%B4%E5%96%AC%E5%A4%AB" title="戈爾巴喬夫 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="戈爾巴喬夫" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%ED%95%98%EC%9D%BC_%EA%B3%A0%EB%A5%B4%EB%B0%94%EC%B4%88%ED%94%84" title="미하일 고르바초프 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미하일 고르바초프" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D4%B3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B9%D5%B8%D5%BE" title="Միխայիլ Գորբաչով – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Միխայիլ Գորբաչով" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5" title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचेव – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचेव" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergejewi%C4%8D_Gorba%C4%8Dow" title="Michail Sergejewič Gorbačow – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Michail Sergejewič Gorbačow" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C4%8Dov" title="Mihail Gorbačov – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Mihail Gorbačov" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Sergeyevich_Gorbachyov" title="Mihail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Mihail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachov" title="Mikhail Gorbachov – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%8B_%D1%84%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%82" title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергейы фырт – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергейы фырт" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADkha%C3%ADl_Gorbatsjov" title="Míkhaíl Gorbatsjov – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Míkhaíl Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Michail Gorbačëv – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Michail Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A6%27%D7%95%D7%91" title="מיכאיל גורבצ&#039;וב – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מיכאיל גורבצ&#039;וב" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbatchev" title="Mikhaïl Gorbatchev – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Mikhaïl Gorbatchev" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kabɩyɛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AE%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AC%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B5%E0%B3%8D" title="ಮಿಖಾಯಿಲ್ ಗೊರ್ಬಚೆವ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಮಿಖಾಯಿಲ್ ಗೊರ್ಬಚೆವ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%92%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A9%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="მიხეილ გორბაჩოვი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მიხეილ გორბაჩოვი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachov" title="Mikhail Gorbachov – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%AExa%C3%AEl_Gorba%C3%A7ov" title="Mîxaîl Gorbaçov – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Mîxaîl Gorbaçov" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачёв – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Михаил Горбачёв" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%A1%E0%BA%B4%E0%BA%AE%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%B5%E0%BA%A7_%E0%BA%81%E0%BB%8D%E0%BA%9A%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%9A" title="ມິຮາອີວ ກໍບາຊອບ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ມິຮາອີວ ກໍບາຊອບ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Michael Gorbačëv – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Michael Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihails_Gorba%C4%8Dovs" title="Mihails Gorbačovs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mihails Gorbačovs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergejewitsch_Gorbatschow" title="Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michailas_Gorba%C4%8Diovas" title="Michailas Gorbačiovas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Michailas Gorbačiovas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatsjov" title="Michail Gorbatsjov – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Michail Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorbatxov" title="Mihail Gorbatxov – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Mihail Gorbatxov" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergeevi%C4%8D_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Michail Sergeevič Gorbačëv – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Michail Sergeevič Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Szergejevics_Gorbacsov" title="Mihail Szergejevics Gorbacsov – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Mihail Szergejevics Gorbacsov" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачов – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Михаил Горбачов" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%87%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D" title="മിഖായേൽ ഗോർബച്ചേവ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മിഖായേൽ ഗോർബച്ചേവ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B5" title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचेव – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचेव" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%AE%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%92%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%A9%E1%83%9D%E1%83%95%E1%83%98" title="მიხეილ გორბაჩოვი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="მიხეილ გორბაჩოვი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81" title="ميخائيل جورباتشوف – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ميخائيل جورباتشوف" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%81" title="میخائیل گورباچف – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="میخائیل گورباچف" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2" title="Михайила Горбачев – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Михайила Горбачев" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9F%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8_%E1%80%82%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AB%E1%80%BA%E1%80%97%E1%80%AC%E1%80%81%E1%80%BB%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B7%E1%80%97%E1%80%BA" title="မစ်ဟေး ဂေါ်ဗာချော့ဗ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="မစ်ဟေး ဂေါ်ဗာချော့ဗ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatsjov" title="Michail Gorbatsjov – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Michail Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AD" title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोभ – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोभ" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AD" title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोभ – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="मिखाइल गोर्बाचोभ" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%95" title="ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ミハイル・ゴルバチョフ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbatschow" title="Michail Gorbatschow – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Michail Gorbatschow" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatsjov" title="Mikhail Gorbatsjov – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatsjov" title="Mikhail Gorbatsjov – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatsjov" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikha%C3%AFl_Gorbachov" title="Mikhaïl Gorbachov – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Mikhaïl Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%96%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%B2_%E0%AC%97%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%9A%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%AD" title="ମିଖାଇଲ ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ମିଖାଇଲ ଗୋର୍ବାଚୋଭ" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixail_Gorbachyov" title="Mixail Gorbachyov – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Mixail Gorbachyov" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B5" title="ਮਿਖਾਇਲ ਗੋਰਬਾਚੇਵ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਿਖਾਇਲ ਗੋਰਬਾਚੇਵ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D9%81" title="میخائل گورباچوف – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="میخائل گورباچوف" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%81" title="میخایل ګورباچف – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="میخایل ګورباچف" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%81%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%A2%E1%9F%8A%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%9B_%E1%9E%A0%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%82%E1%9F%90%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%94%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%86%E1%9E%BC%E1%9E%9C" title="មីខាអ៊ីល ហ្គ័របាឆូវ – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="មីខាអ៊ីល ហ្គ័របាឆូវ" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ភាសាខ្មែរ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Michail Gorbačëv – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Michail Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Piemontèis</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michai%C5%82_Gorbaczow" title="Michaił Gorbaczow – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Michaił Gorbaczow" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbatchov" title="Mikhail Gorbatchov – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mikhail Gorbatchov" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C3%A7ov" title="Mihail Gorbaçov – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Mihail Gorbaçov" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorbaciov" title="Mihail Gorbaciov – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Mihail Gorbaciov" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachov" title="Mikhail Gorbachov – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachov" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачов – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Михаил Горбачов" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Горбачёв, Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Горбачёв Михаил Сергеевич" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-ha-yi-e._Ke-pa-ci-hu" title="Mi-ha-yi-e. Ke-pa-ci-hu – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Mi-ha-yi-e. Ke-pa-ci-hu" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D_%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D" title="मिखाइल् गोर्बचोफ् – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="मिखाइल् गोर्बचोफ्" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>संस्कृतम्</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-skr mw-list-item"><a href="https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D9%81" title="میخائل گورپاچوف – Saraiki" lang="skr" hreflang="skr" data-title="میخائل گورپاچوف" data-language-autonym="سرائیکی" data-language-local-name="Saraiki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سرائیکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorba%C4%8D%C3%ABv" title="Michail Gorbačëv – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Michail Gorbačëv" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C3%A7ovi" title="Mihail Gorbaçovi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Mihail Gorbaçovi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Gorbaciov" title="Michail Gorbaciov – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Michail Gorbaciov" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%B6%E0%B6%A0%E0%B7%9C%E0%B7%86%E0%B7%8A" title="මිහායිල් ගොර්බචොෆ් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="මිහායිල් ගොර්බචොෆ්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D9%81" title="ميخائيل گورباچوف – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ميخائيل گورباچوف" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Sergejevi%C4%8D_Gorba%C4%8Dov" title="Michail Sergejevič Gorbačov – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Michail Sergejevič Gorbačov" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C4%8Dov" title="Mihail Gorbačov – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Mihail Gorbačov" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michai%C5%82_Gorbaczow" title="Michaił Gorbaczow – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Michaił Gorbaczow" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84_%DA%AF%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DA%86%DB%86%DA%A4" title="میخائیل گۆرباچۆڤ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="میخائیل گۆرباچۆڤ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BE%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачов – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Михаил Горбачов" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / 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data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Mikhail Gorbachev" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D" title="மிக்கைல் கொர்பச்சோவ் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="மிக்கைல் கொர்பச்சோவ்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a 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href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A5_%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F" title="มีฮาอิล กอร์บาชอฟ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="มีฮาอิล กอร์บาชอฟ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%91%D0%B2" title="Михаил Горбачёв – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Михаил Горбачёв" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Gorba%C3%A7ov" title="Mihail Gorbaçov – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Mihail Gorbaçov" 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March 1990</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lukyanov" title="Anatoly Lukyanov">Anatoly Lukyanov</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;">Himself as <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme&#160;Soviet</a></div></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anatoly_Lukyanov" title="Anatoly Lukyanov">Anatoly Lukyanov</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union">Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme&#160;Soviet&#160;of&#160;the&#160;Soviet&#160;Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 October 1988&#160;–&#32;25 May 1989</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Gromyko" title="Andrei Gromyko">Andrei Gromyko</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span 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Social Democrats</a></span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 March 2000<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>&#160;–&#32;15 November 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Party established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Party disestablished</i></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Acting <a 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disaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demokratizatsiya_(Soviet_Union)" title="Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)">Demokratizatsiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_on_Cooperatives" title="Law on Cooperatives">Law on Cooperatives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Armenian_earthquake" title="1988 Armenian earthquake">Spitak earthquake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan">Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Soviet_Union_legislative_election" title="1989 Soviet Union legislative election">1989 elections</a></li></ul> <hr /> <p><b>Presidency</b> (1990–1991) </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of heads of state of the Soviet Union">Head of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Soviet_Union_presidential_election" title="1990 Soviet Union presidential election">1990 Election</a></li> <li><a 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class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as the last <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Soviet Union">leader of the Soviet Union</a> from 1985 to <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">the country's dissolution</a> in 1991. He served as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a> from 1985 and additionally as <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" title="Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Presidium of the Supreme Soviet</a> from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Soviet" title="Supreme Soviet">Supreme Soviet</a> from 1989 to 1990 and the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="President of the Soviet Union">president of the Soviet Union</a> from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a> but moved towards <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democracy</a> by the early 1990s. He was the only Soviet leader born after the country's foundation. </p><p>Gorbachev was born in <a href="/wiki/Privolnoye,_Stavropol_Krai" title="Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai">Privolnoye</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus_Krai" title="North Caucasus Krai">North Caucasus Krai</a>, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Growing up under the <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_Joseph_Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Rule of Joseph Stalin">rule of Joseph Stalin</a> in his youth, he operated <a href="/wiki/Combine_harvester" title="Combine harvester">combine harvesters</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Collective_farming" title="Collective farming">collective farm</a> before joining the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a>, which then governed the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> as a <a href="/wiki/One-party_state" title="One-party state">one-party state</a>. Studying at <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University">Moscow State University</a>, he married fellow student <a href="/wiki/Raisa_Gorbacheva" title="Raisa Gorbacheva">Raisa Titarenko</a> in 1953 and received his law degree in 1955. Moving to <a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a>, he worked for the <a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">Komsomol</a> youth organization and, after Stalin's death, became a keen proponent of the <a href="/wiki/De-Stalinization" title="De-Stalinization">de-Stalinization</a> reforms of Soviet leader <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>. He was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee in 1970, overseeing the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Stavropol_Canal" title="Great Stavropol Canal">Great Stavropol Canal</a>. In 1978, he returned to Moscow to become a Secretary of the party's <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee</a>; he joined the governing <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th term</a>) as a non-voting member in 1979 and a voting member in 1980. Three years after the death of Soviet leader <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>—following the brief tenures of <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a>—in 1985, the Politburo elected Gorbachev as general secretary, the <i>de facto</i> leader. </p><p>Although committed to preserving the Soviet state and its Marxist–Leninist ideals, Gorbachev believed significant reform was necessary for its survival. He <a href="/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan">withdrew troops</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a> and embarked on summits with United States president <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> to limit <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> and end the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. Domestically, his policy of <i><a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">glasnost</a></i> ("openness") allowed for enhanced <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press" title="Freedom of the press">press</a>, while his <i><a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">perestroika</a></i> ("restructuring") sought to decentralize economic decision-making to improve its efficiency. Ultimately, Gorbachev's <a href="/wiki/Democratization_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratization (Soviet Union)">democratization</a> measures and formation of the elected <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_People%27s_Deputies_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Congress of People&#39;s Deputies of the Soviet Union">Congress of People's Deputies</a> undermined the one-party state. When various <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> countries <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">abandoned Marxist–Leninist governance in 1989</a>, he declined to intervene militarily. Growing <a href="/wiki/Nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist">nationalist</a> sentiment within <a href="/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Republics of the Soviet Union">constituent republics</a> threatened to break up the Soviet Union, leading the hardliners within the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a> to launch <a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Soviet coup d&#39;état attempt">an unsuccessful coup</a> against Gorbachev in August 1991. In the coup's wake, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_dissolved" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Union dissolved">Soviet Union dissolved</a> against Gorbachev's wishes. After resigning from the presidency, he launched the <a href="/wiki/The_Gorbachev_Foundation" title="The Gorbachev Foundation">Gorbachev Foundation</a>, became a vocal critic of Russian presidents <a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, and campaigned for Russia's social-democratic movement. </p><p>Gorbachev is considered one of the most significant figures of the second half of the 20th century. The recipient of a wide range of awards, including the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a>, in the West he is praised for his role in ending the Cold War, introducing new political and economic freedoms in the Soviet Union, and tolerating both the fall of Marxist–Leninist administrations in eastern and central Europe and the <a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a>. Gorbachev has a complicated legacy in Russia. While in power, he had net positive approval ratings, being viewed as a reformer and changemaker. However, as the Soviet Union collapsed as a result of these reforms, so did his approval rating; Russians in the 21st century often deride him for weakening Russia's global influence and precipitating an <a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Economic history of the Russian Federation">economic collapse in the country</a>. His unsuccessful run for president in 1996 showed, despite neoliberal reforms in Russia at the time, mass unpopularity with the results of his administration and possibly regret for the collapse of the USSR. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931–1950:_childhood"><span id="1931.E2.80.931950:_childhood"></span>1931–1950: childhood</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: 1931–1950: childhood"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in the village of <a href="/wiki/Privolnoye,_Stavropol_Krai" title="Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai">Privolnoye</a>, then in the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasus_Krai" title="North Caucasus Krai">North Caucasus Krai</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622DoderBranson19901McCauley199815Taubman20177_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622DoderBranson19901McCauley199815Taubman20177-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the time, Privolnoye was divided between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201710_12-0" class="reference"><a 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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19904McCauley199815Taubman20177-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His relationship with his father, Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev, was close; his mother, Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva (née Gopkalo), was colder and punitive.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20178–9_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20178–9-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His parents were poor,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20179_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20179-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and lived as peasants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They had 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href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>. Stalin had initiated a project of <a href="/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Collectivization in the Soviet Union">mass rural collectivization</a> meant to help convert the country into a <a href="/wiki/Socialist_mode_of_production" title="Socialist mode of production">socialist society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19901Taubman20177_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19901Taubman20177-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev's maternal grandfather joined the Communist Party and helped form the village's first <a href="/wiki/Kolkhoz" title="Kolkhoz">kolkhoz</a> (collective farm) in 1929, becoming its chair.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199815Taubman201712–13_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199815Taubman201712–13-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was 19 kilometres (12&#160;mi) outside Privolnoye, and when he was three years old, Gorbachev left his parental home and moved into the kolkhoz with his maternal grandparents.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201714_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201714-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The country was experiencing the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%931933" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet famine of 1932–1933">famine of 1930–1933</a>, in which two of Gorbachev's paternal uncles and an aunt died.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199816Taubman20177_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199816Taubman20177-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was followed by the <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Great Purge</a>, in which individuals accused of being "<a href="/wiki/Enemies_of_the_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Enemies of the people">enemies of the people</a>" were interned in labor camps or executed. Both of Gorbachev's grandfathers served time in labor camps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199815–16Taubman20177,_8_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199815–16Taubman20177,_8-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After his December 1938 release, Gorbachev's maternal grandfather discussed having been tortured by <a href="/wiki/Joint_State_Political_Directorate" title="Joint State Political Directorate">the secret police</a>, an account that influenced the young boy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201718–19_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201718–19-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, in June 1941 the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">German Army</a> invaded the Soviet Union. German forces occupied Privolnoye for four and a half months in 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19905–6McCauley199817Taubman20177,_20–22_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19905–6McCauley199817Taubman20177,_20–22-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev's father fought on the frontlines; he was wrongly declared dead during the conflict and fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a> before returning to his family, injured.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19905McCauley199817Taubman20178,_26–27_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19905McCauley199817Taubman20178,_26–27-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Germany was defeated, Gorbachev's parents had their second son, Aleksandr, in 1947; he and Mikhail were their only children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201716_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201716-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The village school was closed during much of the war, re-opening in autumn 1944.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201727_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201727-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev did not want to return but excelled academically when he did.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20179,_27–28_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20179,_27–28-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He read voraciously, moving from the Western novels of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid" title="Thomas Mayne Reid">Thomas Mayne Reid</a> to the works of <a href="/wiki/Vissarion_Belinsky" title="Vissarion Belinsky">Vissarion Belinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin" title="Alexander Pushkin">Alexander Pushkin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol" title="Nikolai Gogol">Nikolai Gogol</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov" title="Mikhail Lermontov">Mikhail Lermontov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201729–30_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201729–30-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1946, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">Komsomol</a>, the Soviet political youth organization, becoming leader of his local group, and was then elected to the Komsomol committee for the district.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20178,_28–29_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20178,_28–29-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From primary school he moved to the high school in <a href="/wiki/Krasnogvardeyskoye,_Stavropol_Krai" title="Krasnogvardeyskoye, Stavropol Krai">Molotovskoye</a>; he stayed there during the week and walked the 19&#160;km (12&#160;mi) home during weekends.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201730_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201730-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As well as being a member of the school's drama society,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19907McCauley199818Taubman201732_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19907McCauley199818Taubman201732-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he organized sporting and social activities and led the school's morning exercise class.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201732_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201732-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Over the course of five consecutive summers starting with 1946, he returned home to assist his father in operating a combine harvester; during those summers, they sometimes worked 20-hour days.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199818Taubman201734_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199818Taubman201734-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1948, they harvested over 8,000 <a href="/wiki/Quintal" title="Quintal">centners</a> of grain, a feat for which Sergey was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Lenin" title="Order of Lenin">Order of Lenin</a> and his son the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Banner_of_Labour" title="Order of the Red Banner of Labour">Order of the Red Banner of Labour</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19906McCauley199818Taubman20178,_34_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19906McCauley199818Taubman20178,_34-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950–1955:_university"><span id="1950.E2.80.931955:_university"></span>1950–1955: university</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: 1950–1955: university"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>I would consider it a high honour to be a member of the highly advanced, genuinely revolutionary Communist Party of Bolsheviks. I promise to be faithful to the great cause of Lenin and Stalin, to devote my entire life to the party's struggle for Communism. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—&#8201;Gorbachev's letter requesting membership of the Communist Party, 1950<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201742_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201742-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>In June 1950, Gorbachev became a candidate member of the Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201742_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201742-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He applied to study at the law school of <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_University" title="Moscow State University">Moscow State University</a> (MSU), then the most prestigious university in the country. They accepted him without asking for an exam, likely because of his worker-peasant origins and his possession of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19906,_8McCauley199818Taubman201740–41_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19906,_8McCauley199818Taubman201740–41-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His choice of law was unusual; it was not a well-regarded subject in Soviet society at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198635_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198635-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At age 19, he traveled by train to Moscow, the first time he had left his home region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201743_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201743-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Moscow, Gorbachev resided with fellow MSU students at a dormitory in the <a href="/wiki/Sokolniki_District" title="Sokolniki District">Sokolniki District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201750_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201750-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He felt at odds with his urban counterparts, but soon came to fit in.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201744_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201744-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Fellow students recall his working especially hard, often late into the night.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199014Taubman201748_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199014Taubman201748-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He gained a reputation as a mediator during disputes<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201753_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201753-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and was outspoken in class, but was private about his views; for instance, he confided in some students his opposition to the Soviet jurisprudential norm that a confession proved guilt, noting that confessions could have been forced.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201752_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201752-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During his studies, an <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitic</a> campaign spread through the Soviet Union, culminating in the <a href="/wiki/Doctors%27_plot" title="Doctors&#39; plot">Doctors' plot</a>; Gorbachev publicly defended Volodya Liberman, a Jewish student accused of disloyalty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199819Taubman201745,_52_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199819Taubman201745,_52-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At MSU, Gorbachev became the Komsomol head of his entering class, and then Komsomol's deputy secretary for agitation and propaganda at the law school.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199010McCauley199819Taubman201746_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199010McCauley199819Taubman201746-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One of his first Komsomol assignments in Moscow was to monitor the election polling in <a href="/wiki/Presnensky_District" title="Presnensky District">Presnensky District</a> to ensure near-total turnout; Gorbachev found that most people voted "out of fear".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201746_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201746-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1952, he was appointed a full member of the Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199819Taubman201746_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199819Taubman201746-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was tasked with monitoring fellow students for subversion; some of his fellow students said he did so only minimally and that they trusted him to keep confidential information secret from the authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201747_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201747-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev became close friends with <a href="/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Mlyn%C3%A1%C5%99" title="Zdeněk Mlynář">Zdeněk Mlynář</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Demographics of Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovak</a> student who later became a primary ideologist of the 1968 <a href="/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a>. Mlynář recalled that the duo remained committed Marxist–Leninists despite their growing concerns about the <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> system.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198636–37DoderBranson199011McCauley199819Taubman201745,_53,_56–57_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198636–37DoderBranson199011McCauley199819Taubman201745,_53,_56–57-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Stalin died in March 1953, Gorbachev and Mlynář joined the crowds massing to see Stalin's body lying in state.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201757–58_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201757–58-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At MSU, Gorbachev met <a href="/wiki/Raisa_Gorbacheva" title="Raisa Gorbacheva">Raisa Titarenko</a>, who was studying in the university's philosophy department.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19901_5Taubman201759,_63_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson19901_5Taubman201759,_63-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She was engaged to another man, but after that engagement fell apart, she began a relationship with Gorbachev;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201759–63_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201759–63-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> together they went to bookstores, museums, and art exhibits.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201766_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201766-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In early 1953, he took an internship at the procurator's office in Molotovskoye district, but he was angered by the incompetence and arrogance of those working there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201772–73_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201772–73-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That summer, he returned to Privolnoye to work with his father on the harvest; the money earned allowed him to pay for his wedding.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201768_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201768-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 25 September 1953 he and Raisa registered their marriage at Sokolniki Registry Office<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201768_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201768-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in October moved in together at the <a href="/wiki/Sparrow_Hills" title="Sparrow Hills">Lenin Hills</a> dormitory.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201770_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201770-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Raisa discovered that she was pregnant and although the couple wanted to keep the child she fell ill and required an abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201770–71_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201770–71-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 1955, Gorbachev graduated with a distinction;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198642McCauley199820_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198642McCauley199820-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> his final paper had been on the advantages of "socialist democracy" over "bourgeois democracy" (<a href="/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">liberal democracy</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was subsequently assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Procurator_General_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Procurator General of the Soviet Union">Soviet Procurator</a>'s office, which was focusing on the rehabilitation of the innocent victims of Stalin's purges, but found that they had no work for him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820–21Taubman201773–74_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820–21Taubman201773–74-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was then offered a place on an MSU graduate course specializing in kolkhoz law, but declined.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201774_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820Taubman201774-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had wanted to remain in Moscow, where Raisa was enrolled in a PhD program, but instead gained employment in <a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a>; Raisa abandoned her studies to join him there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820–21Taubman201775_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199820–21Taubman201775-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_CPSU_career">Early CPSU career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Early CPSU career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1955–1969:_Stavropol_Komsomol"><span id="1955.E2.80.931969:_Stavropol_Komsomol"></span>1955–1969: Stavropol Komsomol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: 1955–1969: Stavropol Komsomol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 1955, Gorbachev started work at the Stavropol regional procurator's office, but disliked it and got a transfer to work for Komsomol,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199821Taubman201777_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199821Taubman201777-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> becoming deputy director of Komsomol's agitation and propaganda department for that region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199031Taubman201778_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199031Taubman201778-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this position, he visited villages in the area and tried to improve the lives of their inhabitants; he established a discussion circle in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gorkaya_Balka&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Gorkaya Balka (page does not exist)">Gorkaya Balka</a> to help its peasant residents gain social contacts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201795_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201795-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev and his wife Raisa initially rented a small room in Stavropol,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998210Taubman201781–83_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998210Taubman201781–83-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> taking daily evening walks around the city and on weekends hiking in the countryside.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201781_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201781-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 1957, Raisa gave birth to a daughter, Irina,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199019McCauley199823Taubman201786_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199019McCauley199823Taubman201786-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 1958 they moved into two rooms in a <a href="/wiki/Communal_apartment" title="Communal apartment">communal apartment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman201789_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman201789-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1961, Gorbachev pursued a second degree, in agricultural production; he took a <a href="/wiki/Correspondence_course" class="mw-redirect" title="Correspondence course">correspondence course</a> from the local Stavropol Agricultural Institute, receiving his diploma in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198656,_62DoderBranson199019McCauley199829Taubman2017115–116_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198656,_62DoderBranson199019McCauley199829Taubman2017115–116-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His wife had also pursued a second degree, attaining a PhD in sociology in 1967 from the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_State_Pedagogical_University" title="Moscow State Pedagogical University">Moscow State Pedagogical University</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198663DoderBranson199019McCauley199829Taubman2017111–113_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198663DoderBranson199019McCauley199829Taubman2017111–113-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while in Stavropol she joined the Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201786_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201786-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stalin was succeeded as Soviet leader by <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, who denounced Stalin and his <a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">cult of personality</a> in a <a href="/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences" title="On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences">speech given in February 1956</a>, after which he launched a <a href="/wiki/De-Stalinization" title="De-Stalinization">de-Stalinization</a> process throughout Soviet society.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201790–91_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201790–91-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later biographer <a href="/wiki/William_Taubman" title="William Taubman">William Taubman</a> suggested that Gorbachev "embodied" the "reformist spirit" of the Khrushchev era.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201790_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201790-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was among those who saw themselves as "genuine Marxists" or "genuine Leninists".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201791_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201791-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He helped spread Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist message in Stavropol, but encountered many who saw Stalin as a hero and praised his purges as just.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199822Taubman201796–98_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199822Taubman201796–98-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev rose steadily through the ranks of the local administration.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201778_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201778-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The authorities regarded him as politically reliable,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201780_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201780-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and he would flatter his superiors, for instance gaining favor with prominent local politician <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Kulakov" title="Fyodor Kulakov">Fyodor Kulakov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198674DoderBranson199032McCauley199825Taubman2017105–106_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198674DoderBranson199032McCauley199825Taubman2017105–106-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With an ability to outmanoeuvre rivals, some colleagues resented his success.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017103,_105_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017103,_105-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 1956, he was promoted First Secretary of the Stavropol city's Komsomol, placing him in charge of it;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198647DoderBranson199031McCauley199823Taubman201798_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198647DoderBranson199031McCauley199823Taubman201798-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in April 1958 he was made deputy head of the Komsomol for the entire region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman2017100_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman2017100-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was given better accommodation: a two-room flat with its own private kitchen, toilet, and bathroom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201789_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201789-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Stavropol, he formed a discussion club for youths,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman201799_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199823Taubman201799-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and helped mobilize local young people to take part in Khrushchev's agricultural and development campaigns.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017100_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017100-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307,_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen,_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-1126-307%2C_LPG_Gol%C3%9Fen%2C_Besuch_durch_KPdSU_Delegation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="789" data-file-height="545" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev on a visit to <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a> in 1966</figcaption></figure> <p>In March 1961, Gorbachev became First Secretary of the regional Komsomol,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198649McCauley199823_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198649McCauley199823-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in which position he went out of his way to appoint women as city and district leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017102_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017102-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1961, Gorbachev played host to the Italian delegation for the <a href="/wiki/World_Youth_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="World Youth Festival">World Youth Festival</a> in Moscow;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017149_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017149-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that October, he attended the <a href="/wiki/22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198650DoderBranson199024McCauley199824_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198650DoderBranson199024McCauley199824-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 1963, Gorbachev was promoted to personnel chief for the regional party's agricultural committee,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017107_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017107-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in September 1966 became First Secretary of the Stavropol City Party Organization ("Gorkom").<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198661McCauley199826_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198661McCauley199826-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 1968 he was frustrated with his job—in large part because Khrushchev's reforms were stalling or being reversed—and he contemplated leaving politics to work in academia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017116_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017116-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in August 1968, he was named Second Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, making him the deputy of First Secretary Leonid Yefremov and the second most senior figure in Stavropol Krai.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198663DoderBranson199032McCauley199828Taubman2017119_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198663DoderBranson199032McCauley199828Taubman2017119-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1969, he was elected as a deputy to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union">Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union</a> and made a member of its Standing Commission for the Protection of the Environment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198664_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198664-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cleared for travel to <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a> countries, in 1966 he was part of a delegation which visited <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>, and in 1969 and 1974 visited <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People&#39;s Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199830_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199830-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 1968 <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">the Soviet Union led an invasion</a> of <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> to put an end to the Prague Spring. Although Gorbachev later stated that he had had private concerns about the invasion, he publicly supported it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017123–124_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017123–124-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 1969 he was part of a Soviet delegation sent to Czechoslovakia, where he found the people largely unwelcoming.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198664–65McCauley199830Taubman2017124_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198664–65McCauley199830Taubman2017124-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That year, the Soviet authorities ordered him to punish Fagim B. Sadygov, a philosophy professor of the Stavropol agricultural institute whose ideas were regarded as critical of Soviet agricultural policy; Gorbachev ensured that Sadykov was fired from teaching but ignored calls for him to face tougher punishment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199828–29Taubman2017125_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199828–29Taubman2017125-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev later related that he was "deeply affected" by the incident; "my conscience tormented me" for overseeing Sadykov's persecution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017125–126_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017125–126-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970–1977:_heading_the_Stavropol_region"><span id="1970.E2.80.931977:_heading_the_Stavropol_region"></span>1970–1977: heading the Stavropol region</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: 1970–1977: heading the Stavropol region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 1970, Yefremov was promoted to a higher position in Moscow and Gorbachev succeeded him as the First Secretary of the Stavropol kraikom. This granted Gorbachev significant power over the Stavropol region.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198665DoderBranson199032McCauley199829Taubman2017120_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198665DoderBranson199032McCauley199829Taubman2017120-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had been vetted for the position by senior <a href="/wiki/Kremlin" title="Kremlin">Kremlin</a> leaders and was informed of their decision by the Soviet leader, <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017121–122_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017121–122-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Aged 39, he was considerably younger than his predecessors.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017121_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017121-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As head of the Stavropol region, he automatically became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th term</a>) in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198673Taubman2017121_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198673Taubman2017121-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to biographer <a href="/wiki/Zhores_Medvedev" title="Zhores Medvedev">Zhores Medvedev</a>, Gorbachev "had now joined the Party's super-elite".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198665_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198665-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As regional leader, Gorbachev initially attributed economic and other failures to "the inefficiency and incompetence of cadres, flaws in management structure or gaps in legislation", but eventually concluded that they were caused by an excessive centralization of decision making in Moscow.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017127_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017127-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He began reading translations of restricted texts by Western Marxist authors such as <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci" title="Antonio Gramsci">Antonio Gramsci</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Aragon" title="Louis Aragon">Louis Aragon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Garaudy" title="Roger Garaudy">Roger Garaudy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Boffa" title="Giuseppe Boffa">Giuseppe Boffa</a>, and came under their influence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017127_107-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017127-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017129-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He oversaw the expansion of irrigation systems through construction of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Stavropol_Canal" title="Great Stavropol Canal">Great Stavropol Canal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199831–32Taubman2017130_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199831–32Taubman2017130-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For overseeing a record grain harvest in <a href="/wiki/Ipatovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Ipatovsky">Ipatovsky</a> district, in March 1972 he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_October_Revolution" title="Order of the October Revolution">Order of the October Revolution</a> by Brezhnev in a Moscow ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199833Taubman2017131–132_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199833Taubman2017131–132-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev sought to maintain Brezhnev's trust;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017123_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017123-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as regional leader, he repeatedly praised Brezhnev in his speeches, for instance referring to him as "the outstanding statesman of our time".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017128–129_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017128–129-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev and his wife holidayed in Moscow, Leningrad, Uzbekistan, and resorts in the North Caucasus;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017157_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017157-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he holidayed with the head of the <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a>, who was favorable towards him and who became an important patron.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199035–36Taubman2017138–139_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199035–36Taubman2017138–139-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev developed good relationships with senior figures including the Soviet prime minister, <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Alexei Kosygin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199835Taubman2017145–146_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199835Taubman2017145–146-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the longstanding senior party member <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Mikhail Suslov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986108,_113McCauley199835_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986108,_113McCauley199835-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The government considered Gorbachev sufficiently reliable to be sent in Soviet delegations to Western Europe; he made five trips there between 1970 and 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198678Taubman2017149_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198678Taubman2017149-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September 1971 he was part of a delegation to Italy, where they met with representatives of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Communist_Party" title="Italian Communist Party">Italian Communist Party</a>; Gorbachev loved Italian culture but was struck by the poverty and inequality he saw there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017149–150_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017149–150-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1972, he visited Belgium and the Netherlands, and in 1973 <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199830Taubman2017150–151_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199830Taubman2017150–151-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev and his wife visited France in 1976 and 1977, on the latter occasion touring the country with a guide from the <a href="/wiki/French_Communist_Party" title="French Communist Party">French Communist Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017151–152_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017151–152-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was surprised by how openly West Europeans offered their opinions and criticized their political leaders, something absent from the Soviet Union, where most people did not feel safe speaking so openly.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017152_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017152-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He later related that for him and his wife, these visits "shook our a priori belief in the superiority of socialist over bourgeois democracy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev had remained close to his parents; after his father became terminally ill in 1974, Gorbachev traveled to be with him in Privolnoe shortly before his death.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153–154_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153–154-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His daughter, Irina, married fellow student Anatoly Virgansky in April 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017156_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017156-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1977, the Supreme Soviet appointed Gorbachev to chair the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs due to his experience with mobilizing young people in Komsomol.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198677_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198677-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secretary_of_the_Central_Committee_of_CPSU">Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_644463_First_stage_in_the_Soviet_troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/RIAN_archive_644463_First_stage_in_the_Soviet_troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_644463_First_stage_in_the_Soviet_troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" 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His appointment was approved unanimously by the Central Committee's members.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017161_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017161-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To fill this position, Gorbachev and his wife moved to Moscow, where they were initially given an old <a href="/wiki/Dacha" title="Dacha">dacha</a> outside the city. They then moved to another, at <a href="/wiki/Sosnovka" title="Sosnovka">Sosnovka</a>, before being allocated a newly built brick house.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017164–175_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017164–175-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was given an apartment inside the city, but gave that to his daughter and son-in-law; Irina had begun work at Moscow's <a href="/wiki/Russian_National_Research_Medical_University" title="Russian National Research Medical University">Second Medical Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165,_166_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165,_166-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As part of the Moscow political elite, Gorbachev and his wife now had access to better medical care and to specialized shops; they were given cooks, servants, bodyguards, and secretaries, many of these spies for the KGB.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his new position, Gorbachev often worked twelve to sixteen hour days.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165_130-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017165-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He and his wife socialized little, but liked to visit Moscow's theaters and museums.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199840Taubman2017166_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199840Taubman2017166-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1978, Gorbachev was appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture (<a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th term</a>), replacing his old patron Kulakov, who had died of a heart attack.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198695–96DoderBranson199038–39_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198695–96DoderBranson199038–39-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev concentrated his attentions on agriculture: the harvests of 1979, 1980, and 1981 were all poor, due largely to weather conditions,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev19867,_102–103,_106–107DoderBranson199040Galeotti199732Taubman2017175–177_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev19867,_102–103,_106–107DoderBranson199040Galeotti199732Taubman2017175–177-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and the country had to import increasing quantities of grain.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986107DoderBranson199040_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986107DoderBranson199040-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had growing concerns about the country's agricultural management system, coming to regard it as overly centralized and requiring more bottom-up decision making;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017177–78_135-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017177–78-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he raised these points at his first speech at a Central Committee Plenum, given in July 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199834_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199834-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He began to have concerns about other policies too. In December 1979, the Soviets sent the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Armed_Forces" title="Soviet Armed Forces">armed forces</a> into <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">neighbouring Afghanistan to support</a> its <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">Soviet-aligned government</a> against <a href="/wiki/Afghan_mujahideen" title="Afghan mujahideen">Islamist insurgents</a>; Gorbachev privately thought it a mistake.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017173_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017173-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At times he openly supported the government position; in October 1980 he for instance endorsed Soviet calls for Poland's Marxist–Leninist government to crack down on <a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">growing internal dissent in that country</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017173_137-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017173-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That same month, he was promoted from a candidate member to a full member of the <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th term</a>), becoming the youngest member of the highest decision-making authority in the Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986107_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986107-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, Andropov succeeded him as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party</a>, the <i>de facto</i> leader in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev was enthusiastic about the appointment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986118,_121–122DoderBranson199043McCauley199841Taubman2017179–180_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986118,_121–122DoderBranson199043McCauley199841Taubman2017179–180-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, although Gorbachev hoped that Andropov would introduce liberalizing reforms, the latter carried out only personnel shifts rather than structural change.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017180_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017180-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev became Andropov's closest ally in the Politburo;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986123_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986123-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with Andropov's encouragement, Gorbachev sometimes chaired Politburo meetings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017181,_191_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017181,_191-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Andropov encouraged Gorbachev to expand into policy areas other than agriculture, preparing him for future higher office.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGaleotti199732Taubman2017181_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGaleotti199732Taubman2017181-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 1983, in a sign of growing ascendancy, Gorbachev delivered the annual speech marking the birthday of the Soviet founder <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986123Galeotti199732Taubman2017181_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986123Galeotti199732Taubman2017181-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> this required him re-reading many of Lenin's later writings, in which the latter had called for reform in the context of the <a href="/wiki/New_Economic_Policy" title="New Economic Policy">New Economic Policy</a> of the 1920s, and encouraged Gorbachev's own conviction that reform was needed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017182_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017182-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 1983, Gorbachev was sent to Canada, where he met Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a> and spoke to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada" title="Parliament of Canada">Canadian Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986124DoderBranson199046–47McCauley199831Taubman2017182–185_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986124DoderBranson199046–47McCauley199831Taubman2017182–185-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There, he met and befriended the Soviet ambassador, <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Yakovlev" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksandr Yakovlev">Aleksandr Yakovlev</a>, who later became a key political ally.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199047McCauley199831Taubman2017182_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199047McCauley199831Taubman2017182-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 1984, Andropov died; on his deathbed he indicated his desire that Gorbachev succeed him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199050Taubman2017190–191_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199050Taubman2017190–191-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many in the Central Committee nevertheless thought the 53-year-old Gorbachev was too young and inexperienced.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986138DoderBranson199056_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986138DoderBranson199056-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Instead, <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a>—a longstanding Brezhnev ally—was appointed general secretary, but he too was in very poor health.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986138–139DoderBranson199051–52McCauley199843Taubman2017192_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986138–139DoderBranson199051–52McCauley199843Taubman2017192-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Chernenko was often too sick to chair Politburo meetings, with Gorbachev stepping in last minute.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199057McCauley199843Taubman2017193_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199057McCauley199843Taubman2017193-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev continued to cultivate allies both in the Kremlin and beyond,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017193_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017193-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and gave the main speech at a conference on Soviet ideology, where he angered party hardliners by implying that the country required reform.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986158–159Taubman2017193–195_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986158–159Taubman2017193–195-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 1984, Gorbachev was appointed chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Soviet legislature, a largely honorific position.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986142Taubman2017196_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986142Taubman2017196-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June he traveled to Italy as a Soviet representative for the funeral of Italian Communist Party leader <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Berlinguer" title="Enrico Berlinguer">Enrico Berlinguer</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199844Taubman2017195_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199844Taubman2017195-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in September to <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>, Bulgaria to attend celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of its liberation from the Nazis by the Red Army.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986155_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986155-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December, he visited Britain at the request of its prime minister <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>; she was aware that he was a potential reformer and wanted to meet him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986159DoderBranson199059McCauley199844Taubman2017196_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986159DoderBranson199059McCauley199844Taubman2017196-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the end of the visit, Thatcher said: "I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986159McCauley199844Taubman2017201_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986159McCauley199844Taubman2017201-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He felt that the visit helped to erode <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Gromyko" title="Andrei Gromyko">Andrei Gromyko</a>'s dominance of Soviet foreign policy and sent a signal to the United States government that he wanted to improve <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93US_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet–US relations">Soviet–US relations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017197_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017197-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1985-1991)"><span id="Leader_of_the_Soviet_Union_.281985-1991.29"></span>Leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/General_Secretaryship_of_Mikhail_Gorbachev" class="mw-redirect" title="General Secretaryship of Mikhail Gorbachev">General Secretaryship of Mikhail Gorbachev</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg/170px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg/255px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg/340px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_1985_Geneva_Summit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="889" data-file-height="998" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev in 1985 at a summit in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, Switzerland</figcaption></figure> <p>On 11 March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the eighth <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo of the CPSU</a> after the death of <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev198622-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>While Gorbachev wanted to preserve the Soviet Union and <a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxist-Leninist</a> ideals, he recognised the need for significant reforms. He decided to withdrew troops from the <a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017272–273_160-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017272–273-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and met with <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> president <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Summit" title="Reykjavík Summit">Reykjavik Summit</a> to discuss the limitation of <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> production and ending the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. He also proposed a three-stage programme for <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament" title="Nuclear disarmament">abolishing</a> the <a href="/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons" title="List of states with nuclear weapons">world's nuclear weapons</a> by the end of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990159–162McCauley199881Taubman2017294_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990159–162McCauley199881Taubman2017294-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Domestically, his policy of <i><a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">glasnost</a></i> ("openness") allowed for the improvement of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press" title="Freedom of the press">free press</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199075,_140,_142_162-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199075,_140,_142-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while his <i><a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">perestroika</a></i> ("restructuring") sought to decentralize economic decision-making to improve its efficiency.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199850,_55_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199850,_55-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ultimately, Gorbachev's <a href="/wiki/Democratization_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratization (Soviet Union)">democratization</a> efforts and formation of the elected <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_People%27s_Deputies_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Congress of People&#39;s Deputies of the Soviet Union">Congress of People's Deputies</a> undermined the supremacy the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">CPSU</a> had in Soviet governance.<sup id="cite_ref-loc_164-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017431–434_165-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017431–434-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When various <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> countries <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">abandoned Marxist–Leninist governance in 1989</a>, he declined to intervene militarily. Growing <a href="/wiki/Nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalist">nationalist</a> sentiment within <a href="/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Republics of the Soviet Union">constituent republics</a> threatened to break up the Soviet Union, leading the hardliners within the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a> to launch <a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Soviet coup d&#39;état attempt">an unsuccessful coup</a> against Gorbachev in August 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-loc_164-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Unraveling_of_the_USSR">Unraveling of the USSR</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Unraveling of the USSR"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">Revolutions of 1989</a>, most of the Marxist–Leninist states of Central and Eastern Europe held multi-party elections resulting in regime change.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In most countries, like Poland and Hungary, this was achieved peacefully, but in Romania, the <a href="/wiki/Romanian_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian Revolution">revolution turned violent</a>, and led to Ceaușescu's overthrow and execution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465_166-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was too preoccupied with domestic problems to pay much attention to these events.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465–466_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017465–466-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He believed that democratic elections would not lead Eastern European countries into abandoning their commitment to socialism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998133Taubman2017481_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998133Taubman2017481-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1989, he visited East Germany for the fortieth anniversary of its founding;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199835–36Taubman2017484–485_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199835–36Taubman2017484–485-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> shortly after, in November, the East German government allowed its citizens to cross the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a>, a decision Gorbachev praised. Over the following years, much of the wall was demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017462–463_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017462–463-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Neither Gorbachev nor Thatcher or Mitterrand wanted a swift reunification of Germany, aware that it would likely become the dominant European power. Gorbachev wanted a gradual process of German integration but Kohl began calling for rapid reunification.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017488–494_171-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017488–494-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With German reunification in 1990, many observers declared the Cold War over.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017427_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017427-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990–1991:_presidency_of_the_Soviet_Union"><span id="1990.E2.80.931991:_presidency_of_the_Soviet_Union"></span>1990–1991: presidency of the Soviet Union</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: 1990–1991: presidency of the Soviet Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg/170px-RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg/255px-RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg/340px-RIAN_archive_485307_Mikhail_Gorbachev.jpg 2x" data-file-width="689" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev addressing the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> in 1988. During the speech, he dramatically announced deep unilateral cuts in Soviet military forces in Eastern Europe.</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 1990, both liberalisers and Marxist–Leninist hardliners intensified their attacks on Gorbachev.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017505_173-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017505-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A liberalizer march took place in Moscow criticizing Communist Party rule,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017505–506_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017505–506-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while at a Central Committee meeting, the hardliner <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Brovikov" title="Vladimir Brovikov">Vladimir Brovikov</a> accused Gorbachev of reducing the country to "anarchy" and "ruin" and of pursuing Western approval at the expense of the Soviet Union and the Marxist–Leninist cause.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017506–507_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017506–507-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was aware that the Central Committee could still oust him as general secretary, and so decided to reformulate the role of head of government to a presidency from which he could not be removed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998160–161Taubman2017507_176-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998160–161Taubman2017507-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He decided that the presidential election should be held by the Congress of People's Deputies. He chose this over a public vote because he thought the latter would escalate tensions and feared that he might lose it;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998165Taubman2017508–509_177-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998165Taubman2017508–509-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a spring 1990 poll nevertheless still showed him as the most popular politician in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017509_178-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017509-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March, the Congress of People's Deputies held the first (and only) <a href="/wiki/1990_Soviet_Union_presidential_election" title="1990 Soviet Union presidential election">Soviet presidential election</a>, in which Gorbachev was the only candidate. He secured 1,329 in favor to 495 against; 313 votes were invalid or absent. He therefore became the first (and only) executive <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="President of the Soviet Union">President of the Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998164–165Taubman2017509_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998164–165Taubman2017509-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A new 18-member <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Council_(USSR)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential Council (USSR)">Presidential Council</a> <i>de facto</i> replaced the Politburo.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998165–166Taubman2017511_180-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998165–166Taubman2017511-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the same Congress meeting, he presented the idea of repealing Article 6 of the Soviet constitution, which had ratified the Communist Party as the "ruling party" of the Soviet Union. The Congress passed the reform, undermining the <i>de jure</i> nature of the one-party state.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990408McCauley1998161Taubman2017510–522_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990408McCauley1998161Taubman2017510–522-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/1990_Russian_Supreme_Soviet_election" title="1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election">1990 elections</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_Russia" title="Supreme Soviet of Russia">Russian Supreme Soviet</a>, the Communist Party faced challengers from an alliance of liberalisers known as "<a href="/wiki/Democratic_Russia" title="Democratic Russia">Democratic Russia</a>"; the latter did particularly well in urban centers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998170Taubman2017513_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998170Taubman2017513-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yeltsin was elected the parliament's chair, something Gorbachev was unhappy about.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998169Taubman2017513–514_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998169Taubman2017513–514-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That year, opinion polls showed Yeltsin overtaking Gorbachev as the most popular politician in the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017509_178-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017509-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev struggled to understand Yeltsin's growing popularity, commenting: "he drinks like a fish&#160;... he's inarticulate, he comes up with the devil knows what, he's like a worn-out record".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017515_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017515-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Russian Supreme Soviet was now out of Gorbachev's control;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017515_184-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017515-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in June 1990, it declared that in the Russian Republic, its laws took precedence over those of the Soviet central government.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998172_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998172-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Amid a growth in <a href="/wiki/Russian_nationalism" title="Russian nationalism">Russian nationalist</a> sentiment, Gorbachev had reluctantly allowed the formation of a <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic</a> as a branch of the larger Soviet Communist Party. Gorbachev attended its first congress in June, but soon found it dominated by hardliners who opposed his reformist stance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998174–175Taubman2017500–501,_515–516_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998174–175Taubman2017500–501,_515–516-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="German_reunification_and_the_Gulf_War">German reunification and the Gulf War</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: German reunification and the Gulf War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 1990, Gorbachev privately agreed to permit East German reunification with West Germany, but rejected the idea that a unified Germany could retain West Germany's NATO membership.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017543_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017543-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His compromise that Germany might retain both NATO and Warsaw Pact memberships did not attract support.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017552_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017552-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 9 February 1990 in a phone conversation with <a href="/wiki/James_Baker" title="James Baker">James Baker</a>, then the US secretary of state, he said that "a broadening of the NATO zone is not acceptable" to which Baker agreed. Scholars are puzzled why Gorbachev never pursued a written pledge.<sup id="cite_ref-moh119_189-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moh119-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In May 1990, he visited the US for talks with President Bush;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990422Taubman2017550_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990422Taubman2017550-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> there, he agreed that an independent Germany would have the right to choose its international alliances.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017552_188-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017552-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ultimately he acquiesced to the reunification on the condition that NATO troops not be posted to the territory of Eastern Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017546_191-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017546-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There remains <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany#Eastward_expansion_of_NATO" title="Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany">some confusion</a> over whether US secretary of state James Baker led Gorbachev to believe that NATO would not expand into other countries in Eastern Europe. There was no oral or written US promise that explicitly said so. Gorbachev stated that he was only made such a promise regarding East Germany and that it was kept.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July, Kohl visited Moscow and Gorbachev informed him that the Soviets would not oppose a reunified Germany's being part of NATO.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017564_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017564-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Domestically, Gorbachev's critics accused him of betraying the national interest;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017565_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017565-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> more broadly, they were angry that Gorbachev had allowed the Eastern Bloc to move away from direct Soviet influence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017540–541_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017540–541-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg/220px-Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg/330px-Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg/440px-Bush_Gorba_P15623-25A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2958" data-file-height="1992" /></a><figcaption>In September 1990, Gorbachev met repeatedly with US president George Bush (Sr) at the <a href="/wiki/Helsinki_Summit_(1990)" title="Helsinki Summit (1990)">Helsinki Summit</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In August 1990, <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>'s Iraqi government <a href="/wiki/Iraqi_invasion_of_Kuwait" title="Iraqi invasion of Kuwait">invaded Kuwait</a>; Gorbachev endorsed President Bush's condemnation of it.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This brought criticism from many in the Soviet state apparatus, who saw Hussein as a key ally in the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> and feared for the safety of the 9,000 Soviet citizens in Iraq, although Gorbachev argued that the Iraqis were the clear aggressors.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998213Taubman2017540–541,_566–567_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998213Taubman2017540–541,_566–567-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November the Soviets endorsed <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_660" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 660">a UN Resolution</a> permitting force to be used in expelling the Iraqi Army from Kuwait.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017567–568_199-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017567–568-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev later called it a "watershed" in world politics, "the first time the superpowers acted together in a regional crisis".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017568_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017568-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, when the US announced plans for <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">a ground invasion</a>, Gorbachev opposed it, urging instead a peaceful solution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017588–589_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017588–589-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 1990, Gorbachev was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize</a>; he was flattered but acknowledged "mixed feelings" about the accolade.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998220Taubman2017572_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998220Taubman2017572-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Polls indicated that 90% of Soviet citizens disapproved of the award, widely seen as an anti-Soviet accolade.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017572_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017572-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the Soviet budget deficit climbing and no domestic money markets to provide the state with loans, Gorbachev looked elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998214_204-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998214-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Throughout 1991, Gorbachev requested sizable loans from Western countries and Japan, hoping to keep the Soviet economy afloat and ensure the success of perestroika.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017568–569_205-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017568–569-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although the Soviet Union had been excluded from the <a href="/wiki/G7" title="G7">G7</a>, Gorbachev secured an invitation to <a href="/wiki/17th_G7_summit" title="17th G7 summit">its London summit</a> in July 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998218–219Taubman2017593_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998218–219Taubman2017593-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There, he continued to call for financial assistance; Mitterrand and Kohl backed him,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017570_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017570-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> while Thatcher—no longer in office—urged Western leaders to agree.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998215Taubman2017595–596_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998215Taubman2017595–596-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most G7 members were reluctant, instead offering technical assistance and proposing the Soviets receive "special associate" status—rather than full membership—of the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998218–219Taubman2017595_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998218–219Taubman2017595-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was frustrated that the US would spend $100&#160;billion on the Gulf War but would not offer his country loans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998214Taubman2017595_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998214Taubman2017595-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other countries were more forthcoming; West Germany had given the Soviets <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Mark" title="Deutsche Mark">DM</a>60&#160;billion by mid-1991.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017569_211-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017569-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Bush visited Moscow in late July, when he and Gorbachev concluded ten years of negotiations by signing the <a href="/wiki/START_I" title="START I">START I</a> treaty, a bilateral agreement on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998221Taubman2017596–598_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998221Taubman2017596–598-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="August_coup_and_government_crises">August coup and government crises</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: August coup and government crises"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Soviet coup d&#39;état attempt">1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GorbachevMS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/GorbachevMS.jpg/170px-GorbachevMS.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/GorbachevMS.jpg/255px-GorbachevMS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/GorbachevMS.jpg/340px-GorbachevMS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2800" data-file-height="4050" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev in October 1991</figcaption></figure> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">28th Communist Party Congress</a> in July 1990, hardliners criticized the reformists, but Gorbachev was re-elected party leader.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990425McCauley1998178Taubman2017519–520_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990425McCauley1998178Taubman2017519–520-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Seeking compromise with the liberalizers, Gorbachev assembled a team of his own and Yeltsin's advisers to come up with an economic reform package: the result was the "<a href="/wiki/500_Days" class="mw-redirect" title="500 Days">500 Days</a>" programme. This called for further decentralization and some privatization.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998183–185Taubman2017521–528_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998183–185Taubman2017521–528-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In September, Yeltsin presented the plan to the Russian Supreme Soviet, which backed it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998185–186Taubman2017529_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998185–186Taubman2017529-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many in the Communist Party and state apparatus warned against it, and it was abandoned.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017529–531_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017529–531-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By mid-November 1990, much of the press was calling for Gorbachev to resign and predicting civil war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017532_217-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017532-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November, he announced an eight-point program with governmental reforms, among them the abolition of the presidential council.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998188Taubman2017533_218-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998188Taubman2017533-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By this point, Gorbachev was isolated from many of his former close allies and aides.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017536_219-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017536-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yakovlev had moved out of his inner circle and Shevardnadze had resigned.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998193–194Taubman2017534–535_220-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998193–194Taubman2017534–535-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Amid growing dissent in <a href="/wiki/The_Baltics" class="mw-redirect" title="The Baltics">the Baltics</a>, in January 1991 Gorbachev demanded that the <a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Supreme_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Supreme Council">Lithuanian Supreme Council</a> rescind its pro-independence reforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017575_221-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017575-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Soviet troops occupied buildings in <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a> and <a href="/wiki/January_Events" title="January Events">attacked protesters</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-dw-january_events_222-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-january_events-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 15 of whom were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998199–200Taubman2017575_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998199–200Taubman2017575-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum" title="1991 Soviet Union referendum">referendum on the issue</a> brought 76.4% in favor of continued federation; the six rebellious republics had not taken part.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998206–207Taubman2017580_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998206–207Taubman2017580-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Negotiations took place to decide what form the new constitution would take; it was planned to be signed in August.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017580–582_225-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017580–582-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg/220px-August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg/330px-August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg/440px-August_1991_coup_-_awaiting_the_counterattack_outside_the_White_House_Moscow_-_panoramio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1777" data-file-height="1146" /></a><figcaption>Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters surrounding the <a href="/wiki/White_House_(Moscow)" title="White House (Moscow)">White House</a>, Moscow</figcaption></figure> <p>In August, Gorbachev holidayed at his dacha in <a href="/wiki/Foros,_Crimea" title="Foros, Crimea">Foros, Crimea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998233Taubman2017602,_605_226-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998233Taubman2017602,_605-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two weeks into his holiday, a group of senior Communist Party figures—the "<a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gang of Eight (Soviet Union)">Gang of Eight</a>" launched a <a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1991 Soviet coup d&#39;état attempt">coup d'état</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017607–608_227-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017607–608-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coup leaders demanded that Gorbachev declare a state of emergency, but he refused.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017608_228-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017608-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was kept under <a href="/wiki/House_arrest" title="House arrest">house arrest</a> in the dacha.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017608–610_229-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017608–610-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coup plotters publicly announced that Gorbachev was ill and thus Vice President Yanayev would take charge of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998237Taubman2017610_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998237Taubman2017610-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Yeltsin entered the Moscow <a href="/wiki/White_House_(Moscow)" title="White House (Moscow)">White House</a>. Protesters prevented troops storming the building to arrest him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998237–238Taubman2017611_231-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998237–238Taubman2017611-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In front of the White House, Yeltsin, atop a tank, gave a memorable speech condemning the coup.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The coup's leaders realized that they lacked sufficient support and ended their efforts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017612_233-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017612-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev returned to Moscow and thanked Yeltsin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017614–615_234-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017614–615-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two days later, he resigned as general secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998244Taubman2017621_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998244Taubman2017621-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Final_days_and_collapse">Final days and collapse</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Final days and collapse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a></div> <p>After the coup, the Supreme Soviet indefinitely suspended all Communist Party activity, effectively ending communist rule in the Soviet Union.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Президент_России_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Президент_России-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg/330px-RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg/440px-RIAN_archive_848095_Signing_the_Agreement_to_eliminate_the_USSR_and_establish_the_Commonwealth_of_Independent_States.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2622" data-file-height="1724" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Republics of the Soviet Union">Leaders of the Soviet Republics</a> sign the <a href="/wiki/Belovezha_Accords" title="Belovezha Accords">Belovezha Accords</a>, which eliminated the USSR and established the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">Commonwealth of Independent States</a>, 1991</figcaption></figure> <p>On 30 October, Gorbachev attended <a href="/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991" title="Madrid Conference of 1991">a conference</a> in Madrid trying to revive the <a href="/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_peace_process" title="Israeli–Palestinian peace process">Israeli–Palestinian peace process</a>. The event was co-sponsored by the US and Soviet Union. There, he again met with Bush.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998248–249Taubman2017631–632_239-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998248–249Taubman2017631–632-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> En route home, he traveled to France where he stayed with Mitterrand at the latter's home near <a href="/wiki/Bayonne" title="Bayonne">Bayonne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998249Taubman2017633_240-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998249Taubman2017633-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>To maintain unity, Gorbachev continued to plan for a union treaty, but met opposition to the continuation of a federal state as the leaders of several Soviet republics bowed to nationalist pressure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017624_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017624-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yeltsin stated that he would veto any idea of a unified state, instead favoring a <a href="/wiki/Confederation" title="Confederation">confederation</a> with little central authority.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998252Taubman2017627_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998252Taubman2017627-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Only the leaders of <a href="/wiki/Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic">Kazakhstan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kirghiz_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic">Kirghizia</a> supported Gorbachev's approach.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017628_243-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017628-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum" title="1991 Ukrainian independence referendum">referendum in Ukraine</a> on 1 December with a 90% turnout for secession from the Union was a fatal blow; Gorbachev had expected Ukrainians to reject independence.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998253Taubman2017628–629_244-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998253Taubman2017628–629-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cold_War_border_changes.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Cold_War_border_changes.png/250px-Cold_War_border_changes.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Cold_War_border_changes.png/375px-Cold_War_border_changes.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Cold_War_border_changes.png/500px-Cold_War_border_changes.png 2x" data-file-width="599" data-file-height="436" /></a><figcaption>Changes in national boundaries after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a> in 1991</figcaption></figure> <p>Without Gorbachev's knowledge, Yeltsin met with Ukrainian president <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Kravchuk" title="Leonid Kravchuk">Leonid Kravchuk</a> and Belarusian president <a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Shushkevich" title="Stanislav Shushkevich">Stanislav Shushkevich</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belovezha_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Belovezha Forest">Belovezha Forest</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Brest,_Belarus" title="Brest, Belarus">Brest, Belarus</a>, on 8 December and signed the <a href="/wiki/Belavezha_Accords" class="mw-redirect" title="Belavezha Accords">Belavezha Accords</a>, which declared the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and formed the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">Commonwealth of Independent States</a> (CIS) as its successor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998254–255Taubman2017629–630_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998254–255Taubman2017629–630-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev only learned of this development when Shushkevich phoned him; Gorbachev was furious.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998255Taubman2017630_246-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998255Taubman2017630-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He desperately looked for an opportunity to preserve the Soviet Union, hoping that the media and intelligentsia would rally against its dissolution.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017634–635_247-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017634–635-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian Supreme Soviets then ratified the establishment of the CIS.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998256Taubman2017625_248-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998256Taubman2017625-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 9 December, Gorbachev issued a statement calling the CIS agreement "illegal and dangerous".<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017636_250-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017636-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 20 December, the leaders of 11 of the 12 remaining republics—all except Georgia—met in Kazakhstan and signed the <a href="/wiki/Alma-Ata_Protocol" title="Alma-Ata Protocol">Alma-Ata Protocol</a>, agreeing to dismantle the Soviet Union and formally establish the CIS. They provisionally accepted Gorbachev's resignation as president of what remained of the Soviet Union. Accepting the <i>fait accompli</i>, Gorbachev said he would resign as soon as he saw that the CIS was a reality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017637_251-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017637-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev reached a deal with Yeltsin that called for Gorbachev to announce his resignation as Soviet president and Commander-in-Chief on 25 December, vacating the Kremlin by 29 December.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017638_253-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017638-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yakovlev, Chernyaev and Shevardnadze joined Gorbachev to help him write a resignation speech.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017637_251-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017637-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev gave his speech in the Kremlin in front of television cameras, for international broadcast.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998257Taubman2017645_254-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998257Taubman2017645-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In it, he announced, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." He expressed regret for the breakup of the Soviet Union but cited what he saw as the achievements of his administration: political and religious freedom, the end of totalitarianism, the introduction of democracy and a market economy, and an end to the arms race and Cold War.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017646_255-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017646-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was the third out of eight Soviet leaders, after <a href="/wiki/Malenkov" class="mw-redirect" title="Malenkov">Malenkov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khrushchev" class="mw-redirect" title="Khrushchev">Khrushchev</a>, not to die in office.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017651_256-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017651-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The following day, 26 December, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_of_the_Republics" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet of the Republics">Soviet of the Republics</a>, the upper house of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, voted the country out of existence.<sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 31 December 1991, all Soviet institutions that had not been taken over by Russia ceased to function.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258_260-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-USSR_life">Post-USSR life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Post-USSR life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1991–1999:_Initial_years"><span id="1991.E2.80.931999:_Initial_years"></span>1991–1999: Initial years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: 1991–1999: Initial years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg/220px-Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg/330px-Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg/440px-Reagan_and_Gorbachev_in_western_hats_1992.jpg 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="652" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev visiting Reagan, at <a href="/wiki/Rancho_del_Cielo" title="Rancho del Cielo">Rancho del Cielo</a> in 1992</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_(1994)_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg/220px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg/330px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg/440px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_speech_at_Legislative_Yuan_%281994%29_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3303" data-file-height="2040" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev giving a speech at the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Yuan" title="Legislative Yuan">Legislative Yuan</a> in Taiwan, 1994</figcaption></figure> <p>Out of office, he and Raisa initially lived in their dilapidated dacha on Rublevskoe Shosse, and were allowed to privatize their smaller apartment on Kosygin Street.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017653_261-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017653-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He focused on establishing <a href="/wiki/International_Foundation_for_Socio-Economic_and_Political_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies">his foundation</a>, launched in March 1992;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258Taubman2017651,_654_262-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258Taubman2017651,_654-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yakovlev and Revenko were its first vice presidents.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654_263-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its initial tasks were analyzing and publishing material on the history of perestroika, and defending the policy. The foundation tasked itself with monitoring and critiquing life in post-Soviet Russia, presenting alternative development forms to Yeltsin's.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654_263-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>To finance his foundation, Gorbachev began lecturing internationally, charging large fees.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654_263-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On a visit to Japan, he was given multiple honorary degrees.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656_264-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1992, he toured the US in a <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> private jet to raise money for his foundation, meeting the Reagans for a social visit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656_264-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From there he went to Spain, where he met with his friend Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Felipe_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Felipe González">Felipe González</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656–657_265-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017656–657-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He further visited Israel and Germany, where he was received warmly for his role in facilitating <a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017657_266-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017657-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To supplement his lecture fees and book sales, Gorbachev appeared in television commercials<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and photograph advertisements,<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> enabling him to keep the foundation afloat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654–655_269-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017654–655-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> With his wife's assistance, he worked on his memoirs, which were published in Russian in 1995 and in English the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258–259Taubman2017664_271-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998258–259Taubman2017664-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He began writing a monthly syndicated column for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017675_272-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017675-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1993, Gorbachev launched <a href="/wiki/Green_Cross_International" title="Green Cross International">Green Cross International</a>, which focused on encouraging sustainable futures, and then the <a href="/w/index.php?title=World_Political_Forum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="World Political Forum (page does not exist)">World Political Forum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017652_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017652-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1995, he initiated the <a href="/wiki/World_Summit_of_Nobel_Peace_Laureates" title="World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates">World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-274" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 230px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?76259-1/memoirs"><i>Booknotes</i> interview with Gorbachev on his memoirs, 24 November 1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Gorbachev and Yeltsin soon resumed their criticism of each other,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017655_275-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017655-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> for example when Yeltsin lifted price caps and plunged many Russians into poverty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017655_275-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017655-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1995, his foundation held a conference on "The Intelligentsia and Perestroika", proposing to the <a href="/wiki/State_Duma" title="State Duma">Duma</a> a law that would reduce many of the presidential powers established by Yeltsin's <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Russia" title="Constitution of Russia">1993 constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017659_276-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017659-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Gorbachev_with_Carlos_Menem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Mikhail_Gorbachev_with_Carlos_Menem.jpg/220px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_with_Carlos_Menem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Mikhail_Gorbachev_with_Carlos_Menem.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="269" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev with Argentine president <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Menem" title="Carlos Menem">Carlos Menem</a> in 1999</figcaption></figure> <p>In contrast to her husband's political activities, Raisa focused on campaigning for children's charities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663–664_277-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663–664-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1997, she founded a sub-division of the Gorbachev Foundation known as Raisa Maksimovna's Club to improve women's welfare in Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017664–665_278-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017664–665-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Foundation had initially been housed in the former Social Science Institute building, but Yeltsin introduced limits to the number of rooms it could use there;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017658–659_279-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017658–659-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the American philanthropist <a href="/wiki/Ted_Turner" title="Ted Turner">Ted Turner</a> donated over $1 million to enable the foundation to build new premises on the <a href="/wiki/Leningradsky_Avenue" title="Leningradsky Avenue">Leningradsky Prospekt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017665_280-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017665-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1999, Gorbachev visited Australia, giving a speech to the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Australia" title="Parliament of Australia">country's parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017666–667_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017666–667-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shortly after, in July, Raisa was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Leukemia" title="Leukemia">leukemia</a>. With the assistance of German chancellor <a href="/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der" title="Gerhard Schröder">Gerhard Schröder</a>, she was transferred to a cancer center in <a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCnster" title="Münster">Münster</a>, Germany, and underwent <a href="/wiki/Chemotherapy" title="Chemotherapy">chemotherapy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017668_282-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017668-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She died in September,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017272_283-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017272-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Gorbachev's daughter Irina and his two granddaughters moved into his Moscow home to live with him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017674_284-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017674-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg/330px-RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg/440px-RIAN_archive_46207_Funeral_of_Raisa_Gorbachev.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="802" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev, daughter Irina and his wife's sister Lyudmila at the funeral of Raisa, 1999</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1996_presidential_campaign">1996 presidential campaign</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: 1996 presidential campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev_1996_presidential_campaign" title="Mikhail Gorbachev 1996 presidential campaign">Mikhail Gorbachev 1996 presidential campaign</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election" title="1996 Russian presidential election">Russian presidential elections</a> were scheduled for June 1996, and although he was urged not to run, Gorbachev decided to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017660_285-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017660-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He never expected to win outright, but thought a centrist bloc could be formed around either himself or one of the other candidates with similar views, such as <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Yavlinsky" title="Grigory Yavlinsky">Grigory Yavlinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Svyatoslav_Fyodorov" title="Svyatoslav Fyodorov">Svyatoslav Fyodorov</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lebed" title="Alexander Lebed">Alexander Lebed</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017660–661_286-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017660–661-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After securing the necessary one million signatures of nomination, he announced his candidacy in March.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017661_287-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017661-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Launching <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev_1996_presidential_campaign" title="Mikhail Gorbachev 1996 presidential campaign">his campaign</a>, he traveled across Russia giving rallies in twenty cities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017661_287-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017661-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He repeatedly faced anti-Gorbachev protesters, while some pro-Yeltsin local officials tried to hamper his campaign by banning local media from covering it or by refusing him access to venues.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017662_288-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017662-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the election, Gorbachev came seventh with approximately 386,000 votes, or around 0.5% of the total.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663_289-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yeltsin and Zyuganov went through to the second round, where the former was victorious.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663_289-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017663-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1999–2008:_Promoting_social_democracy_in_Putin's_Russia"><span id="1999.E2.80.932008:_Promoting_social_democracy_in_Putin.27s_Russia"></span>1999–2008: Promoting social democracy in Putin's Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: 1999–2008: Promoting social democracy in Putin&#039;s Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg/220px-Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg/330px-Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg/440px-Inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_7_May_2000-13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="334" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev attended the <a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin" title="First inauguration of Vladimir Putin">inauguration of Vladimir Putin</a> in May 2000</figcaption></figure> <p>In December 1999, Yeltsin resigned and was succeeded by his deputy, <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, who won the <a href="/wiki/2000_Russian_presidential_election" title="2000 Russian presidential election">March 2000 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017676_290-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017676-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev initially welcomed Putin's rise, seeing him as an anti-Yeltsin figure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017652_273-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017652-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although he spoke out against some of the Putin government's actions, Gorbachev praised the new government in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017679_291-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017679-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the time, he believed Putin to be a committed democrat who nevertheless had to use "a certain dose of authoritarianism" to stabilize the economy and rebuild the state after the Yeltsin era.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017677_292-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017677-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At Putin's request, Gorbachev became co-chair of the "Petersburg Dialogue" project between high-ranking Russians and Germans.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017676_290-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017676-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, Gorbachev helped form the <a href="/wiki/Russian_United_Social_Democratic_Party" title="Russian United Social Democratic Party">Russian United Social Democratic Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678_293-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2002, he participated in a meeting with Putin, who praised the venture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017679_291-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017679-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2003, Gorbachev's party merged with the Social Democratic Party to form the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Russia_(2001)" title="Social Democratic Party of Russia (2001)">Social Democratic Party of Russia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678_293-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but it failed to gain traction with voters.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678_293-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev resigned as party leader in May 2004 after the <a href="/wiki/2003_Russian_legislative_election" title="2003 Russian legislative election">2003 election campaign</a>. The party was banned in 2007 by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court of the Russian Federation">Supreme Court of the Russian Federation</a> due to its failure to establish local offices with at least 500 members in the majority of Russian regions.<sup id="cite_ref-294" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later that year, Gorbachev founded a new movement, the Union of Social Democrats, stating that it would not contest the forthcoming elections.<sup id="cite_ref-295" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev was critical of US hostility to Putin, arguing that the US government "doesn't want Russia to rise" again as a global power, but wanted to be "the sole superpower".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017680_296-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017680-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev was critical of US policy following the Cold War, arguing that the West had attempted to "turn [Russia] into some kind of backwater".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685_297-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He rejected Bush's claim that the US had "won" the Cold War, arguing that both sides had cooperated to end the conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685_297-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was critical of how the US had broken its word and expanded NATO right up to Russia's borders.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685_297-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-298" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He spoke out against the 1999 <a href="/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia" title="NATO bombing of Yugoslavia">NATO bombing of Yugoslavia</a> because it lacked UN backing, and the <a href="/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion of Iraq</a> led by the US.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685_297-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008–2022:_Growing_criticism_of_Putin"><span id="2008.E2.80.932022:_Growing_criticism_of_Putin"></span>2008–2022: Growing criticism of Putin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: 2008–2022: Growing criticism of Putin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In September 2008, Gorbachev and business oligarch <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev" title="Alexander Lebedev">Alexander Lebedev</a> announced they would form the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Democratic_Party_of_Russia" title="Independent Democratic Party of Russia">Independent Democratic Party of Russia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-300" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War" title="Russo-Georgian War">Russo-Georgian War</a>, Gorbachev spoke out against US support for Georgian president <a href="/wiki/Mikheil_Saakashvili" title="Mikheil Saakashvili">Mikheil Saakashvili</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-301" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-302" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev nevertheless remained critical of Russia's government.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017681_303-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017681-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_%26_Joe_Biden_with_Mikhail_Gorbachev_3-20.09.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2333" /></a><figcaption>Gorbachev (right) being introduced to US president <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> by US vice president <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>, March 2009. US ambassador to Russia <a href="/wiki/Michael_McFaul" title="Michael McFaul">Michael McFaul</a> is pictured in the background.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2009, he met with US president <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> to "reset" strained US–Russian relations.<sup id="cite_ref-304" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-304"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2011, Medvedev awarded him the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_St._Andrew" title="Order of St. Andrew">Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017681_303-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017681-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev opposed Putin's decision to run for president in the <a href="/wiki/2012_Russian_presidential_election" title="2012 Russian presidential election">2012 election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017684_305-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017684-305"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-306" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-306"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBCGorbachevInterview_307-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCGorbachevInterview-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, he defended the <a href="/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum" title="2014 Crimean status referendum">Crimean status referendum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation" title="Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation">Russia's annexation of Crimea</a> that began the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685_297-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017685-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He spoke out against the sanctions placed on Russia as a result of the annexation.<sup id="cite_ref-308" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-308"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>Russia can succeed only through democracy. Russia is ready for political competition, a real multiparty system, fair elections and regular rotation of government. This should define the role and responsibility of the president. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">– Gorbachev, 2017<sup id="cite_ref-309" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>302<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>At a 2014 event marking 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warned that the ongoing <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">war in Donbas</a> had brought the world to the brink of a <a href="/wiki/Second_Cold_War" title="Second Cold War">new Cold War</a>, and he accused the US of adopting an attitude of "triumphalism" towards Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-310" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-310"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>303<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-311" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-311"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>304<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2016, he said that "Politicians who think that problems and disputes can be solved by using military force... should be rejected by society, they should clear the political stage."<sup id="cite_ref-312" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-312"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>305<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2018, he welcomed the <a href="/wiki/2018_Russia%E2%80%93United_States_summit" title="2018 Russia–United States summit">Russia–United States summit in Helsinki</a> between Putin and US president <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-313" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-313"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6 United States Capitol attack</a>, Gorbachev declared, "The storming of the capitol was clearly planned in advance, and it's obvious by whom."<sup id="cite_ref-314" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-314"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>307<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2022, Gorbachev's close friend, journalist <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Venediktov" title="Alexei Venediktov">Alexei Venediktov</a>, said that Gorbachev was very upset when he found out that Putin had launched <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">an invasion of Ukraine</a>. According to Venediktov, Gorbachev believed that Putin "destroyed his life's work".<sup id="cite_ref-315" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-315"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>308<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_ideology">Political ideology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Political ideology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Political_views_of_Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Political views of Mikhail Gorbachev">Political views of Mikhail Gorbachev</a></div> <p>In the early 1950s, Gorbachev was conventionally Stalinist.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199011_316-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199011-316"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>309<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the mid-1980s, when Gorbachev took power, Gorbachev argued that the Communist Party had to adapt and engage in creative thinking much as Lenin had earlier creatively interpreted and adapted the writings of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a> to the situation of early 20th century Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990116–117_317-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990116–117-317"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the changes that Gorbachev proposed fitted completely within Marxist-Leninist ideology.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGooding1990197_318-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGooding1990197-318"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev's political outlook was shaped by the 23 years he served as a party official in Stavropol.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199022_319-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199022-319"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>312<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Perestroika was harder to define, and its meaning shifted with time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998262–263_320-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998262–263-320"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>313<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It originally meant "radical reform of the economic and political system".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998264_321-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998264-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later, Gorbachev began to consider market mechanisms and co-operatives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998264_321-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998264-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev however remained a believer in socialism, if not in the actual Soviet system.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017215_322-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017215-322"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>315<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the 1980s, his thought radically shifted,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990386_323-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990386-323"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>316<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to the extent that by 1989 or 1990, he was effectively a social democrat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678_293-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017678-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif/400px-Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif" decoding="async" width="400" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif/600px-Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Gorbachev_Party_Document_of_the_CPSU.gif 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="255" /></a><figcaption>The official Soviet portrait of Gorbachev. Many official photographs and visual depictions of Gorbachev removed the port-wine birthmark from his head.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986160_324-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMedvedev1986160-324"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>317<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Gorbachev spoke in a southern Russian accent,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199050Taubman201744_325-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199050Taubman201744-325"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>318<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and sang both folk and pop songs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201794_326-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201794-326"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>319<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Throughout his life, he tried to dress fashionably.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017179_327-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017179-327"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>320<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Having an aversion to hard liquor,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199818_328-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley199818-328"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>321<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he drank sparingly and did not smoke.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017142_329-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017142-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>322<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was protective of his private life<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153_122-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017153-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and cherished his wife and family.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20174–5_330-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20174–5-330"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>323<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He sent his daughter, his only child, to a local school in Stavropol rather than to one for the children of party elites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017155_331-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017155-331"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>324<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Unlike many of his contemporaries in the Soviet administration, he treated women respectfully.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017102_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017102-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev was baptized Russian Orthodox; his grandparents had been practicing Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990290_332-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990290-332"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>325<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2008, after he visited the tomb of <a href="/wiki/St_Francis_of_Assisi" class="mw-redirect" title="St Francis of Assisi">St Francis of Assisi</a>, he clarified that he was an atheist.<sup id="cite_ref-ChiTrib2008-03-23_333-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChiTrib2008-03-23-333"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>326<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev considered himself an intellectual;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman201744_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman201744-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Doder and Branson thought that "his intellectualism was slightly self-conscious",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199016_334-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199016-334"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>327<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> noting that unlike most Russian intelligentsia, Gorbachev was not closely connected "to the world of science, culture, the arts, or education".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990150_335-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990150-335"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>328<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When living in Stavropol, he and his wife collected hundreds of books.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017114–115_336-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017114–115-336"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>329<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Among his favorite authors were <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky" title="Fyodor Dostoevsky">Dostoevsky</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chinghiz_Aitmatov" title="Chinghiz Aitmatov">Chinghiz Aitmatov</a>, while he also enjoyed reading detective fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199017_337-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson199017-337"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>330<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He enjoyed going for walks,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017137_338-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017137-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>331<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> having a love of natural environments,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017163_339-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017163-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and was also a fan of association football.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990347_340-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990347-340"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>333<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He favored small gatherings where the assembled discussed topics like art and philosophy rather than the large, alcohol-fueled parties common among Soviet officials.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017136–137_341-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017136–137-341"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>334<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Death and funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev">Death and funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg/220px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg/330px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg/440px-Mikhail_Gorbachev_Lying_in_repose.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>Corpse of Gorbachev <a href="/wiki/Lying_in_state" title="Lying in state">lying in state</a> at the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Unions" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Unions">House of Unions</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Gorbachev died at the <a href="/wiki/Central_Clinical_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Clinical Hospital">Central Clinical Hospital</a> in Moscow on 30 August 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-342" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>335<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> at the age of 91.<sup id="cite_ref-343" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-343"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>336<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He died after a "severe and prolonged illness".<sup id="cite_ref-344" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>337<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Источник-2022_345-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Источник-2022-345"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>338<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Вишнева-2022_346-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Вишнева-2022-346"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>339<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had suffered from severe <a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">diabetes</a> and underwent several surgeries and hospital stays.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes.ru_347-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forbes.ru-347"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>340<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-348" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-348"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>341<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-349" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-349"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>342<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital on 9 October 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-350" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-350"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>343<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His funeral was held on 3 September 2022 in the Column Hall of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Unions" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Unions">House of Unions</a>. The ceremony included an <a href="/wiki/Honor_guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Honor guard">honor guard</a>, but was not a <a href="/wiki/State_funeral" title="State funeral">state funeral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-351" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-351"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>344<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The service included rites administered by a Russian Orthodox priest.<sup id="cite_ref-352" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-352"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>345<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-353" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-353"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>346<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was buried at Moscow's <a href="/wiki/Novodevichy_Cemetery" title="Novodevichy Cemetery">Novodevichy Cemetery</a>, in the same grave as his wife Raisa, as requested by his will.<sup id="cite_ref-Президент_России_238-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Президент_России-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception_and_legacy">Reception and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Reception and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Opinions on Gorbachev are deeply divided.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20171_354-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20171-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to a 2017 survey carried out by the independent institute <a href="/wiki/Levada_Center" title="Levada Center">Levada Center</a>, 46% of Russian citizens have a negative opinion towards Gorbachev, 30% are indifferent, while only 15% have a positive opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-355" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-355"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>348<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many, particularly in Western countries, see him as the greatest statesman of the second half of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20171,_539_356-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20171,_539-356"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>349<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> US press referred to the presence of "Gorbymania" in Western countries during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as represented by large crowds that turned out to greet his visits,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990286McCauley1998138_357-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990286McCauley1998138-357"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>350<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> naming him its "Man of the Decade" in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990391_358-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990391-358"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>351<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the Soviet Union itself, opinion polls indicated that Gorbachev was the most popular politician from 1985 through to late 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998267_359-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998267-359"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>352<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His domestic supporters saw him as a reformer trying to modernise the Soviet Union,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990396_360-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990396-360"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>353<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and to build democratic socialism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990410_361-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990410-361"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>354<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Taubman characterized Gorbachev as "a visionary who changed his country and the world—though neither as much as he wished".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688_362-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Taubman regarded Gorbachev as being "exceptional ... as a Russian ruler and a world statesman", highlighting that he avoided the "traditional, authoritarian, anti-Western norm" of both predecessors like Brezhnev and successors like Putin.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017687_363-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017687-363"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>356<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCauley thought that in allowing the Soviet Union to move away from Marxism–Leninism, Gorbachev gave the Soviet people "something precious, the right to think and manage their lives for themselves", with inevitable uncertainty and risk.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998278–279_364-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998278–279-364"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>357<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Lithuanian foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Gabrielius_Landsbergis" title="Gabrielius Landsbergis">Gabrielius Landsbergis</a> said that Lithuanians would not glorify Gorbachev or forget about the 1991 <a href="/wiki/January_Events" title="January Events">January Events</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dw-january_events_222-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dw-january_events-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>Gorbachev succeeded in destroying what was left of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union; he brought freedom of speech, of assembly, and of conscience to people who had never known it, except perhaps for a few chaotic months in 1917. By introducing free elections and creating parliamentary institutions, he laid the groundwork for democracy. It is more the fault of the raw material he worked with than of his own real shortcomings and mistakes that Russian democracy will take much longer to build than he thought. </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—&#8201;Gorbachev biographer William Taubman, 2017<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688_362-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 280px; clear: left; float:left;margin:0 1.5em 1.5em 0;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?433793-1/qa-william-taubman"><i>Q&amp;A</i> interview with William Taubman on <i>Gorbachev: His Life and Times</i>, October 15, 2017</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Gorbachev's negotiations with the US helped bring an end to the Cold War and reduced the threat of nuclear conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688_362-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His decision to allow the Eastern Bloc to break apart prevented significant bloodshed in Central and Eastern Europe; as Taubman noted, this meant that the "<a href="/wiki/Soviet_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Empire">Soviet Empire</a>" ended in a far more peaceful manner than the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> several decades before.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688_362-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017688-362"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>355<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Similarly, under Gorbachev, the Soviet Union broke apart without falling into civil war, as happened during the <a href="/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia" title="Breakup of Yugoslavia">breakup of Yugoslavia</a> at the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBunce1992205McCauley1998275_365-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBunce1992205McCauley1998275-365"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>358<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCauley noted that in facilitating the merger of East and West Germany, Gorbachev was "a co-father of German unification", assuring him long-term popularity among the German people.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998197_366-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998197-366"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>359<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, he remains a controversial figure in former Soviet-occupied and administered countries such as the Baltic States, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Poland, after violent repressions against the local populations who sought independence. Locals have stated that they consider western veneration of the man an injustice and have said they do not understand his positive legacy in the west, with a group of Lithuanians having pursued legal action against him.<sup id="cite_ref-367" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-367"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>360<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>He faced domestic criticism during his rule. He attracted the admiration of some colleagues, but others came to hate him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017134_368-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017134-368"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>361<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Across society, his inability to reverse the decline in the Soviet economy brought discontent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990388_369-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990388-369"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>362<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Liberals thought he lacked the radicalism to break from Marxism–Leninism and establish a free market liberal democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990416Steele1996145_370-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990416Steele1996145-370"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>363<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Conversely, many of his Communist Party critics thought his reforms were reckless and threatened the survival of Soviet socialism;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990324_371-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990324-371"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>364<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> some believed he should have followed the example of China's Communist Party and restricted himself to economic rather than governmental reforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESteele1996145_372-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESteele1996145-372"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>365<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many Russians saw his emphasis on persuasion rather than force as a sign of weakness.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017690_373-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017690-373"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>366<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Communist Party nomenklatura saw the Soviet Union's dissolution as disastrous, as it resulted in their loss of power.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998276_374-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998276-374"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>367<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Russia, he is widely despised for his role in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Economic_collapse" title="Economic collapse">economic collapse</a> in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman20171_354-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman20171-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>347<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Valentin_Varennikov" title="Valentin Varennikov">General Varennikov</a>, one of those who orchestrated the 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev, for instance called him "a renegade and traitor to your own people".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017659_276-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017659-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His critics attacked him for allowing the Marxist–Leninist governments across Eastern Europe to fall,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017268_375-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017268-375"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>368<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and for allowing a reunited Germany to join NATO, something they deem contrary to Russia's national interest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaubman2017691_376-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETaubman2017691-376"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>369<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The leader of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, stated that Gorbachev was a leader whose rule brought "absolute sadness, misfortune and problems" for "all the peoples of our country".<sup id="cite_ref-377" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-377"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>370<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The historian <a href="/wiki/Mark_Galeotti" title="Mark Galeotti">Mark Galeotti</a> stressed the connection between Gorbachev and his predecessor, Andropov. In Galeotti's view, Andropov was "the godfather of the Gorbachev revolution", because—as a former head of the KGB—he was able to put forward the case for reform without having his loyalty to the Soviet cause questioned.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGaleotti199735_378-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGaleotti199735-378"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>371<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to McCauley, Gorbachev "set reforms in motion without understanding where they could lead. Never in his worst nightmare could he have imagined that perestroika would lead to the destruction of the Soviet Union".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998257–258_379-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCauley1998257–258-379"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>372<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i>The New York Times</i>, "Few leaders in the 20th century, indeed in any century, have had such a profound effect on their time. In little more than six tumultuous years, Mr. Gorbachev lifted the Iron Curtain, decisively altering the political climate of the world."<sup id="cite_ref-380" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-380"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>373<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg/220px-President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg/330px-President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg/440px-President_Ronald_Reagan_presents_Reagan_Freedom_Medal_to_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Reagan_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2595" /></a><figcaption>Former US president <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> awards the first <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Freedom_Award" title="Ronald Reagan Freedom Award">Ronald Reagan Freedom Award</a> to Gorbachev at the <a href="/wiki/Reagan_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Reagan Library">Reagan Library</a>, 1992</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1988, India awarded Gorbachev the <a href="/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_Prize_for_Peace,_Disarmament_and_Development" class="mw-redirect" title="Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development">Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990366_381-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoderBranson1990366-381"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>374<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in 1990, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize for "his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community".<sup id="cite_ref-382" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-382"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>375<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Out of office he continued to receive honors. In 1992, he was the first recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Freedom_Award" title="Ronald Reagan Freedom Award">Ronald Reagan Freedom Award</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-383" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-383"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>376<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 1994 was given the <a href="/wiki/Grawemeyer_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grawemeyer Award">Grawemeyer Award</a> by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Louisville" title="University of Louisville">University of Louisville</a>, Kentucky.<sup id="cite_ref-grawemeyer.org_384-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grawemeyer.org-384"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>377<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1995, he was awarded the Grand-Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Liberty" title="Order of Liberty">Order of Liberty</a> by Portuguese president <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Soares" title="Mário Soares">Mário Soares</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-385" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-385"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>378<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 1998 the Freedom Award from the <a href="/wiki/National_Civil_Rights_Museum" title="National Civil Rights Museum">National Civil Rights Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-386" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-386"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>379<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2000, he was presented with the Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement</a> at an awards ceremony at <a href="/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace" title="Hampton Court Palace">Hampton Court Palace</a> near London.<sup id="cite_ref-387" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-387"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>380<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2002, Gorbachev received the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City_of_Dublin" title="Freedom of the City of Dublin">Freedom of the City of Dublin</a> from <a href="/wiki/Dublin_City_Council" title="Dublin City Council">Dublin City Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-388" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-388"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>381<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, Gorbachev was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Charles_V_European_Award" title="Charles V European Award">Charles V Prize</a> by the European Academy of Yuste Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-389" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-389"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>382<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gorbachev, together with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a>, were awarded the <a href="/wiki/46th_Annual_Grammy_Awards" title="46th Annual Grammy Awards">2004 Grammy Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album_for_Children" title="Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children">Best Spoken Word Album for Children</a> for their recording of <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev" title="Sergei Prokofiev">Sergei Prokofiev</a>'s 1936 <i><a href="/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf" title="Peter and the Wolf">Peter and the Wolf</a></i> for <a href="/wiki/Pentatone_(record_label)" title="Pentatone (record label)">Pentatone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-390" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-390"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>383<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2005, Gorbachev was awarded the Point Alpha Prize for his role in supporting German reunification.<sup id="cite_ref-Deutsche_Welle_391-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deutsche_Welle-391"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>384<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Co-author </th> <th>Publisher </th></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td><i>Perestroika – New Thinking for our Country and the World</i> </td> <td>– </td> <td>Harper &amp; Row </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td><i>Memoirs</i> </td> <td>– </td> <td>Doubleday </td></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td><i>Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century: Gorbachev and Ikeda on Buddhism and Communism</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Daisaku_Ikeda" title="Daisaku Ikeda">Daisaku Ikeda</a> </td> <td>I. B. Tauris </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td><i>The New Russia</i> </td> <td>– </td> <td>Polity </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td><i>In a Changing World</i> </td> <td>– </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td><i>What is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom</i> </td> <td>– </td> <td>Polity </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan,_Margaret_Thatcher,_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_(8480300191).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg/170px-InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg/255px-InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg/340px-InSapphoWeTrust_-_Ronald_Reagan%2C_Margaret_Thatcher%2C_and_Mikhail_Gorbachev_at_Madame_Tussauds_London_%288480300191%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1073" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Waxworks of Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev at <a href="/wiki/Madame_Tussauds" title="Madame Tussauds">Madame Tussauds</a>, London</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2020 and 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_Nations" title="Theatre of Nations">Theatre of Nations</a> in Moscow, in collaboration with Latvian director <a href="/wiki/Alvis_Hermanis" title="Alvis Hermanis">Alvis Hermanis</a>, staged a production called <i>Gorbachev</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-392" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-392"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>385<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Yevgeny_Mironov_(actor)" title="Yevgeny Mironov (actor)">Yevgeny Mironov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chulpan_Khamatova" title="Chulpan Khamatova">Chulpan Khamatova</a> played the roles of Gorbachev and his wife Raisa respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-gorbachev_393-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gorbachev-393"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>386<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/David_Dencik" title="David Dencik">David Dencik</a> in the 2019 miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)" title="Chernobyl (miniseries)">Chernobyl</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-DeadlineDencik_394-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DeadlineDencik-394"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>387<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> by <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Marsh_(actor)" title="Matthew Marsh (actor)">Matthew Marsh</a> in the 2023 film <i><a href="/wiki/Tetris_(film)" title="Tetris (film)">Tetris</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-395" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-395"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>388<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and by <a href="/wiki/Aleksander_Krupa" title="Aleksander Krupa">Aleksander Krupa</a> in the 2024 biographical drama <a href="/wiki/Reagan_(2024_film)" title="Reagan (2024 film)">Reagan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-396" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-396"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>389<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gorbachev appears in <i><a href="/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_Cold_War" title="Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War">Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War</a></i> during a mission where the playable character infiltrates the <a href="/wiki/Lubyanka_Building" title="Lubyanka Building">KGB headquarter</a>. 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Thus, in the Soviet Union, a multi-party system was officially allowed, and the CPSU ceased to be part of the state apparatus.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Briefly suspended from 19 to 21 August 1991 during the <a href="/wiki/August_Coup" class="mw-redirect" title="August Coup">August Coup</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>De facto</i> until 21 August 1991; <i>de jure</i> until 4 September.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This post was abolished on <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">25 December 1991</a> and powers were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Russia" title="President of Russia">President of Russia</a>. 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"On Gorbachev". <i>The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review</i>. <b>19</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">199–</span>206. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F187633292X00108">10.1163/187633292X00108</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Soviet+and+Post-Soviet+Review&amp;rft.atitle=On+Gorbachev&amp;rft.volume=19&amp;rft.issue=1&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E199-%3C%2Fspan%3E206&amp;rft.date=1992&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1163%2F187633292X00108&amp;rft.aulast=Bunce&amp;rft.aufirst=Valerie&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDoderBranson1990" class="citation book cs1">Doder, Dusko; Branson, Louise (1990). <i>Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin</i>. London: Futura. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-70884940-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-70884940-8"><bdi>978-0-70884940-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gorbachev%3A+Heretic+in+the+Kremlin&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=Futura&amp;rft.date=1990&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-70884940-8&amp;rft.aulast=Doder&amp;rft.aufirst=Dusko&amp;rft.au=Branson%2C+Louise&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGaleotti1997" class="citation book cs1">Galeotti, Mark (1997). <i>Gorbachev and his Revolution</i>. London: Palgrave. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-33363855-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-33363855-2"><bdi>978-0-33363855-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gorbachev+and+his+Revolution&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pub=Palgrave&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-33363855-2&amp;rft.aulast=Galeotti&amp;rft.aufirst=Mark&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGooding1990" class="citation journal cs1">Gooding, John (1990). "Gorbachev and Democracy". <i>Soviet Studies</i>. <b>42</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">195–</span>231. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F09668139008411864">10.1080/09668139008411864</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/152078">152078</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Soviet+Studies&amp;rft.atitle=Gorbachev+and+Democracy&amp;rft.volume=42&amp;rft.issue=2&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E195-%3C%2Fspan%3E231&amp;rft.date=1990&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F09668139008411864&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F152078%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft.aulast=Gooding&amp;rft.aufirst=John&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcCauley1998" class="citation book cs1">McCauley, Martin (1998). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gorbachev00mcca"><i>Gorbachev</i></a></span>. Profiles in Power. London and New York: Longman. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-58221597-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-58221597-9"><bdi>978-0-58221597-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gorbachev&amp;rft.place=London+and+New+York&amp;rft.series=Profiles+in+Power&amp;rft.pub=Longman&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-58221597-9&amp;rft.aulast=McCauley&amp;rft.aufirst=Martin&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgorbachev00mcca&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMedvedev1986" class="citation book cs1">Medvedev, Zhores (1986). <i>Gorbachev</i>. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-39302308-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-39302308-4"><bdi>978-0-39302308-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gorbachev&amp;rft.place=Oxford&amp;rft.pub=Basil+Blackwell&amp;rft.date=1986&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-39302308-4&amp;rft.aulast=Medvedev&amp;rft.aufirst=Zhores&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSteele1996" class="citation journal cs1">Steele, Jonathan (1996). "Why Gorbachev Failed". <i>New Left Review</i>. <b>216</b>: <span class="nowrap">141–</span>152.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=New+Left+Review&amp;rft.atitle=Why+Gorbachev+Failed&amp;rft.volume=216&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E141-%3C%2Fspan%3E152&amp;rft.date=1996&amp;rft.aulast=Steele&amp;rft.aufirst=Jonathan&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaubman2017" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Taubman" title="William Taubman">Taubman, William</a> (2017). <i><a href="/wiki/Gorbachev:_His_Life_and_Times" title="Gorbachev: His Life and Times">Gorbachev: His Life and Times</a></i>. New York City: Simon and Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-47114796-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-47114796-8"><bdi>978-1-47114796-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Gorbachev%3A+His+Life+and+Times&amp;rft.place=New+York+City&amp;rft.pub=Simon+and+Schuster&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-47114796-8&amp;rft.aulast=Taubman&amp;rft.aufirst=William&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTuminez2003" class="citation journal cs1">Tuminez, Astrid S. (2003). "Nationalism, Ethnic Pressures, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union". <i>Journal of Cold War Studies</i>. <b>5</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">81–</span>136. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1162%2F152039703322483765">10.1162/152039703322483765</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/26925339">26925339</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:57565508">57565508</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Journal+of+Cold+War+Studies&amp;rft.atitle=Nationalism%2C+Ethnic+Pressures%2C+and+the+Breakup+of+the+Soviet+Union&amp;rft.volume=5&amp;rft.issue=4&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E81-%3C%2Fspan%3E136&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A57565508%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26925339%23id-name%3DJSTOR&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1162%2F152039703322483765&amp;rft.aulast=Tuminez&amp;rft.aufirst=Astrid+S.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMikhail+Gorbachev" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Gorbachev&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Russian_Revolution_and_Civil_War" title="Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War">Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Stalinism_and_the_Soviet_Union" title="Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union">bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_post-Stalinist_Soviet_Union" title="Bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union">bibliography of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>Brown, Archie. <i>The human factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War</i> (Oxford University Press, 2020). <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="Please supply an &#73;SBN for this book.">ISBN&#160;missing</span></a></i>&#93;</sup></li> <li>Duncan, W. Raymond, and Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl. <i>Moscow and the third world under Gorbachev</i> (Routledge, 2019). <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="Please supply an &#73;SBN for this book.">ISBN&#160;missing</span></a></i>&#93;</sup></li> <li>Eklof, Ben. <i>Soviet briefing: Gorbachev and the reform period</i> (Routledge, 2019). <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="Please supply an &#73;SBN for this book.">ISBN&#160;missing</span></a></i>&#93;</sup></li> <li>Kotkin, Stephen. <i>Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000</i> (2nd ed. 2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Averted-Soviet-Collapse-1970-2000-dp-0195368649/dp/0195368649/">excerpt</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211031133512/https://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Averted-Soviet-Collapse-1970-2000-dp-0195368649/dp/0195368649/">Archived</a> 31 October 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li>Kramer, Mark. "Mikhail Gorbachev and the Origins of Perestroika: A Retrospective." <i>Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization</i> 29.3 (2021): 255–258.</li> <li>Lane, David. "The Gorbachev revolution: The role of the political elite in regime disintegration." <i>Political studies</i> 44.1 (1996): 4–23.</li> <li>McHugh, James T. "Last of the enlightened despots: A comparison of President Mikhail Gorbachev and Emperor Joseph II." <i>Social Science Journal</i> 32.1 (1995): 69–85 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0362-3319%2895%2990020-9">online abstract </a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210415012036/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0362-3319%2895%2990020-9">Archived</a> 15 April 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</li> <li>Woodby, Sylvia Babus. <i>Gorbachev and the decline of ideology in Soviet foreign policy</i> (Routledge, 2019). <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="Please supply an &#73;SBN for this book.">ISBN&#160;missing</span></a></i>&#93;</sup></li> <li>Ostrovsky, Alexander (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ru.bookshome.net/book/3299571/e53580">Кто поставил Горбачёва? (Who put Gorbachev?)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220807112401/https://ru.bookshome.net/book/3299571/e53580">Archived</a> 7 August 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> – М.: Алгоритм-Эксмо, 2010. – 544 с. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-5-699-40627-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-5-699-40627-2">978-5-699-40627-2</a>.</li> <li>Ostrovsky, Alexander (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ru.bookshome.net/book/1137525/d94429">Глупость или измена? Расследование гибели СССР. (Stupidity or treason? 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Gorbachev</a> collected news and commentary at <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329784/">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/552">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> on Nobelprize.org <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487#P8024" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet">Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(1988–1989)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Supreme_Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman of the Supreme Soviet">Chairman of the Supreme Soviet</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(1989–1990)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="President of the Soviet Union">President of the Soviet Union</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><span class="nobold">(1990–1991)</span> </b><br />1988–1991 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"><b>Office abolished </b> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" 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Kunaev">Kunaev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Kosygin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Kulakov" title="Fyodor Kulakov">Kulakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasili_Kuznetsov_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasili Kuznetsov (politician)">Kuznetsov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Masherov" title="Pyotr Masherov">Masherov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirill_Mazurov" title="Kirill Mazurov">Mazurov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastas_Mikoyan" title="Anastas Mikoyan">Mikoyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasil_Mzhavanadze" title="Vasil Mzhavanadze">Mzhavanadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arv%C4%ABds_Pel%C5%A1e" title="Arvīds Pelše">Pelše</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Podgorny" title="Nikolai Podgorny">Podgorny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Polyansky" title="Dmitry Polyansky">Polyansky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Ponomarev" title="Boris Ponomarev">Ponomarev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharof_Rashidov" title="Sharof 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href="/wiki/Vitaly_Vorotnikov" title="Vitaly Vorotnikov">Vorotnikov</a></li> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of leaders of the Soviet Union">Leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Triumvirate" title="Triumvirate">Troika</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Kosygin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Podgorny" title="Nikolai Podgorny">Podgorny</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Governments_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governments of the Soviet Union">Governments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_First_Government" title="Kosygin&#39;s First Government">Kosygin's 1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Second_Government" title="Kosygin&#39;s Second Government">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Third_Government" title="Kosygin&#39;s Third Government">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Fourth_Government" title="Kosygin&#39;s Fourth Government">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Fifth_Government" title="Kosygin&#39;s Fifth Government">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhonov%27s_First_Government" title="Tikhonov&#39;s First Government">Tikhonov's 1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhonov%27s_Second_Government" title="Tikhonov&#39;s Second Government">2nd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reforms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OGAS" title="OGAS">OGAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1965 Soviet economic reform">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1973 Soviet economic reform">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1979 Soviet economic reform">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_Programme" title="Food Programme">Food Programme</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_Soviet_economic_reform&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 Soviet economic reform (page does not exist)">1984</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Five-year_plans_for_the_national_economy_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union">Five-year plans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Eighth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">8th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Ninth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">9th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Tenth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">10th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleventh_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Eleventh five-year plan (Soviet Union)">11th plan</a></li></ul> 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style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of leaders of the Soviet Union">Leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a> (1912–24)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> (1924–53)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> (1953–64)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> (1964–82)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> (1982–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a> (1984–85)</li> <li><a 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(1922–52)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> (1953–64)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> (1964–82)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> (1982–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a> (1984–85)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> (1985–91)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Ivashko" title="Vladimir Ivashko">Vladimir Ivashko</a> (<i>acting</i>, Aug. 1991)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Decision-making bodies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo / Presidium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Secretariat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo" title="Orgburo">Orgburo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Control Commission</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Departments_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Departments of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Departments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Administrative_Organs_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Administrative Organs Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Administrative Organs</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Agriculture_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Agriculture Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chemical_Industry_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Chemical Industry Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Chemical Industry</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Construction_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Construction Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Construction</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Culture_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Culture Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Industry_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Defence Industry Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Defence Industry</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Foreign_Cadres_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Foreign Cadres Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Foreign Cadres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heavy_Industry_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Heavy Industry Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Heavy Industry</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Information_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Information Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Information</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">International</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Light-_and_Food_Industry_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Light- and Food Industry Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Light- and Food Industry</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Machine_Industry_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Machine Industry Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Machine Industry</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Organisational-party_Work_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Organisational-party Work of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Organisational-party Work</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Planning_and_Financial_Organs_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Planning and Financial Organs Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Planning and Financial Organs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Political_Directorate_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Soviet_Navy" title="Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy">Political Administration of the Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agitprop" title="Agitprop">Propaganda</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Science_and_Education_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Science and Education Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Science and Education</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Trade_and_Consumers%27_Services_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Trade and Consumers&#39; Services Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Trade and Consumers' Services</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transportation-Communications_Department_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Transportation-Communications Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Transportation-Communications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhenotdel" title="Zhenotdel">Women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Publications</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda">Pravda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kommunist" title="Kommunist">Bolshevik / Kommunist</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National meetings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Congress</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">1st (1898)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">2nd (1903)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">3rd (1905)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">4th (1906)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">5th (1907)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">6th (1917)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">7th (1918)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">9th (1920)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">11th (1922)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">12th (1923)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="13th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1952)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th (1956)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">21st (1959)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd (1961)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd (1966)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th (1971)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th (1976)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th (1981)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">27th (1986)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">28th (1990)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Conference_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Conference</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tampere_conference_of_1905" title="Tampere conference of 1905">1st (1905)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2nd_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="2nd Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (page does not exist)">2nd (1906)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=3rd_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="3rd Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (page does not exist)">3rd (Aug. 1907)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="4th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (page does not exist)">4th (Nov. 1907)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=5th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="5th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (page does not exist)">5th (1908)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_Conference" title="Prague Conference">6th (1912)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=7th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="7th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">7th (1917)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=8th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="8th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">8th (1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=9th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="9th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">9th (1920)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=10th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="10th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">10th (May 1921)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="11th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">11th (Dec. 1921)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=12th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="12th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">12th (1922)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=13th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="13th Conference of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">13th (1924)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=14th_Conference_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="14th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">14th (1925)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=15th_Conference_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="15th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">15th (1926)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=16th_Conference_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="16th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">16th (1929)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=17th_Conference_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="17th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">17th (1932)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=18th_Conference_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="18th Conference of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">18th (1941)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_All-Union_Conference_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1988)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Leadership sittings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elected by the<br />Central Committee</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Politburo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inner-composition_of_the_6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">Aug.–Oct. 1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner-composition_of_the_6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">Oct.–Dec. 1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner-composition_of_the_6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">6th (1917–18)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_7th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Bureau, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">7th (1918–19)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_and_Secretariat_of_the_8th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo and Secretariat of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919–20)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">9th (1920–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921–22)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">11th (1922–23)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939–52)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1952–56)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th (1956–61)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd (1961–66)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd (1966–71)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th (1971–76)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th (1976–81)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th (1981–86)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">27th (1986–90)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">28th (1990–91)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Secretariat</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inner-composition_of_the_6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Inner-composition of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">6th (1917–18)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_7th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Bureau, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">7th (1918–19)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_and_Secretariat_of_the_8th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo and Secretariat of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919–20)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">9th (1920–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921–22)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">11th (1922–23)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Secretariat of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939–52)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1952–56)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th (1956–61)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd (1961–66)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd (1966–71)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th (1971–76)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th (1976–81)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th (1981–86)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">27th (1986–90)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretariat_of_the_28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Secretariat of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">28th (1990–91)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Orgburo" title="Orgburo">Orgburo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bureau,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_7th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Bureau, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">7th (Jan.–Mar. 1919)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_8th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919–20)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo,_Secretariat_and_Orgburo_of_the_9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Politburo, Secretariat and Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">9th (1920–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921–22)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">11th (1922–23)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orgburo_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939–52)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Control Committee</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Commission_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Commission of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Commission_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Commission of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">18th (1939–52)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">19th (1952–56)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">20th (1956–61)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">22nd (1961–66)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">23rd (1966–71)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">24th (1971–76)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">25th (1976–81)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">26th (1981–86)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_Control_Committee_of_the_27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party Control Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">27th (1986–90)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elected by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central<br />Control Commission</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Presidium</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Presidium of the Central Control Commission of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">28th (1990–91)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Secretariat_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Secretariat</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Secretariat_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Secretariat_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Secretariat_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Secretariat of the Central Control Commission of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">14th (1925–27)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Collegium</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Collegium_of_the_Central_Control_Commission_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Collegium of the Central Control Commission of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">16th (1930–34)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Elected by<br />Congress</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">1st (1898–1903)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_2nd_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Central Committee of the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">2nd (1903–05)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_3rd_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Central Committee of the 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">3rd (Apr.–Dec. 1905)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_1st_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Central Committee of the 1st Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">CC of the 1st Conf. (1905–06)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_4th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Central Committee of the 4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">4th (1906–07)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_5th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party" title="Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party">5th (1907–12)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_6th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 6th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">CC of the 6th Conf. (1912–17)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_7th_Conference_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 7th Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">CC of the 7th Conf. (Apr.–Aug. 1917)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_6th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Social_Democratic_Labour_Party_(Bolsheviks)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Committee of the 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)">6th (1917–18)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_7th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">7th (1918–19)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_8th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919–20)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">9th (1920–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921–22)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">11th (1922–23)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939–52)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1952–56)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th (1956–61)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd (1961–66)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd (1966–71)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th (1971–76)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th (1976–81)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th (1981–86)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">27th (1986–90)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">28th (1990–91)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Auditing Commission</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_8th,_10th,_13th,_14th_and_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">8th (1919–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_8th,_10th,_13th,_14th_and_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">10th (1921–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_8th,_10th,_13th,_14th_and_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_8th,_10th,_13th,_14th_and_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_8th,_10th,_13th,_14th_and_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">17th (1934–39)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_18th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)">18th (1939–52)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_19th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">19th (1952–56)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_20th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">20th (1956–61)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd (1961–66)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd (1966–71)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th (1971–76)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th (1976–81)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th (1981–86)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Auditing_Commission_of_the_27th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Auditing Commission of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">27th (1986–90)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Control_Commission_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Control Commission</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_9th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">9th (1920–21)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_10th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">10th (1921–22)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_11th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">11th (1922–23)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_12th_Congress_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">12th (1923–24)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_13th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">13th (1924–25)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_14th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 14th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">14th (1925–27)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_15th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">15th (1927–30)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_16th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (page does not exist)">16th (1930–34)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Central_Control_Commission_of_the_28th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Central Control Commission of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">28th (1990–91)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Wider organisation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Republican-level</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Armenia_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union)">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Communist_Party_(1920)" title="Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920)">Azerbaijani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Byelorussia" title="Communist Party of Byelorussia">Byelorussian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bukhara" title="Communist Party of Bukhara">Bukharan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Estonia" title="Communist Party of Estonia">Estonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Georgia_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union)">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Karelo-Finnish_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Communist Party of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic">Karelo-Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kazakhstan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)">Kazakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Khorezm" title="Communist Party of Khorezm">Khorezmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kirghizia" title="Communist Party of Kirghizia">Kirghiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Latvia" title="Communist Party of Latvia">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Lithuania" title="Communist Party of Lithuania">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Moldavia" title="Communist Party of Moldavia">Moldavian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Tajikistan" title="Communist Party of Tajikistan">Tajik</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Communist_Party_of_Transcaucasia&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Communist Party of Transcaucasia (page does not exist)">Transcaucasian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Turkestan" title="Communist Party of Turkestan">Turkestani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Turkmenistan" title="Communist Party of Turkmenistan">Turkmen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)">Ukrainian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Uzbekistan" title="Communist Party of Uzbekistan">Uzbek</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Local-level</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Obkom</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Okrug_committee_of_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Okrug committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Okrugkom</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=City_committee_of_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="City committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Gorkom</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=District_committee_of_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="District committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Raikom</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Party_committee_of_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Party committee of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Partkom</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other organs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Statute_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Statute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (page does not exist)">Statute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komsomol" title="Komsomol">All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Pioneers_(Soviet_Union)" title="Young Pioneers (Soviet Union)">Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Higher_Party_School" title="Higher Party School">Higher Party School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Main_Political_Directorate_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Soviet_Navy" title="Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy">Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groupings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ban_on_factions_in_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Ban on factions in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Ban on factions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Group_of_Democratic_Centralism" title="Group of Democratic Centralism">Group of Democratic Centralism</a> (1919–21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Opposition" title="Workers&#39; Opposition">Workers' Opposition</a> (1920–21)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Truth" title="Workers&#39; Truth">Workers' Truth</a> (1921–23)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Left_Opposition" title="Left Opposition">Left Opposition</a> (1923–27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Workers_Group_of_the_Russian_Communist_Party" title="Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party">Workers' Group</a> (1923–30)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Right_Opposition" title="Right Opposition">Right Opposition</a> (1924–33)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Opposition_(Soviet_Union)" title="United Opposition (Soviet Union)">United Opposition</a> (1926–27)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrtsov-Lominadze_Affair" title="Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair">Left-Right 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title="Mikhail Solomentsev">Mikhail Solomentsev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Chebrikov" title="Viktor Chebrikov">Viktor Chebrikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Shevardnadze" title="Eduard Shevardnadze">Eduard Shevardnadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Shcherbytsky" title="Volodymyr Shcherbytsky">Volodymyr Shcherbytsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Yakovlev_(Russian_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician)">Alexander Yakovlev</a></li> <li>Viktor Nikonov</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Slyunkov" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolay Slyunkov">Nikolay Slyunkov</a></li> <li>Vadim Medvedev</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Maslyukov" title="Yuri Maslyukov">Yuri Maslyukov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kryuchkov" title="Vladimir Kryuchkov">Vladimir Kryuchkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Ivashko" title="Vladimir Ivashko">Vladimir Ivashko</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Candidate members</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Demichev" title="Pyotr Demichev">Pyotr Demichev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Dolgikh" title="Vladimir Dolgikh">Vladimir Dolgikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Slyunkov" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolay Slyunkov">Nikolay Slyunkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergey_Sokolov_(marshal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergey Sokolov (marshal)">Sergey Sokolov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Talyzin" title="Nikolai Talyzin">Nikolai Talyzin</a></li> <li>Yuri Solovyev</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Yakovlev_(Russian_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Yakovlev (Russian politician)">Alexander Yakovlev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Yazov" title="Dmitry Yazov">Dmitry Yazov</a></li> <li><a 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title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/League_of_Communists_of_Yugoslavia" title="League of Communists of Yugoslavia">League of Communists of Yugoslavia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Josip Broz Tito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevan_Doronjski" title="Stevan Doronjski">Stevan Doronjski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazar_Mojsov" title="Lazar Mojsov">Lazar Mojsov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Dragosavac" title="Dušan Dragosavac">Dušan Dragosavac</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">International<br />background</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Active_measures" title="Active measures">Active measures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_socialist_states" title="List of socialist states">List of socialist states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People_Power_Revolution" title="People Power Revolution">People Power Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Predictions_of_the_collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union">Predictions of the collapse of the Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine">Reagan Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Empire">Soviet Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrorism_and_the_Soviet_Union" 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href="/wiki/500_Days_Program" title="500 Days Program">500 Days Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_political_thinking" title="New political thinking">New political thinking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinatra_Doctrine" title="Sinatra Doctrine">Sinatra Doctrine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">Glasnost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reform_and_Opening_Up" class="mw-redirect" title="Reform and Opening Up">Reform and Opening Up</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics" title="Socialism with Chinese characteristics">Socialism with Chinese characteristics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%95i_M%E1%BB%9Bi" title="Đổi Mới">Đổi Mới</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Government<br />leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ramiz_Alia" title="Ramiz Alia">Ramiz Alia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Gr%C3%B3sz" title="Károly Grósz">Károly Grósz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Honecker" title="Erich Honecker">Erich Honecker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Jake%C5%A1" title="Miloš Jakeš">Miloš Jakeš</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egon_Krenz" title="Egon Krenz">Egon Krenz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wojciech_Jaruzelski" title="Wojciech Jaruzelski">Wojciech Jaruzelski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" title="Slobodan Milošević">Slobodan Milošević</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathieu_K%C3%A9r%C3%A9kou" title="Mathieu Kérékou">Mathieu Kérékou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam" title="Mengistu Haile Mariam">Mengistu Haile Mariam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ne_Win" title="Ne Win">Ne Win</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denis_Sassou_Nguesso" title="Denis Sassou Nguesso">Denis Sassou Nguesso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heng_Samrin" title="Heng Samrin">Heng Samrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang" title="Zhao Ziyang">Zhao Ziyang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todor_Zhivkov" title="Todor Zhivkov">Todor Zhivkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siad_Barre" title="Siad Barre">Siad Barre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Opposition<br />methods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_resistance" title="Civil resistance">Civil resistance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_chain_(politics)" title="Human chain (politics)">Human chains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnitizdat" title="Magnitizdat">Magnitizdat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_underground_press" title="Polish underground press">Polish underground press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_demonstration" title="Political demonstration">Political demonstration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protest" title="Protest">Protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samizdat" title="Samizdat">Samizdat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">Strike action</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Opposition<br />leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" title="Lech Wałęsa">Lech Wałęsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel" title="Václav Havel">Václav Havel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Dub%C4%8Dek" title="Alexander Dubček">Alexander Dubček</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ion_Iliescu" title="Ion Iliescu">Ion Iliescu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liu_Gang" title="Liu Gang">Liu Gang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wu%27erkaixi" class="mw-redirect" title="Wu&#39;erkaixi">Wu'erkaixi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chai_Ling" title="Chai Ling">Chai Ling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Dan_(dissident)" title="Wang Dan (dissident)">Wang Dan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feng_Congde" title="Feng Congde">Feng Congde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tank_Man" title="Tank Man">Tank Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joachim_Gauck" title="Joachim Gauck">Joachim Gauck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sali_Berisha" title="Sali Berisha">Sali Berisha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanjaas%C3%BCrengiin_Zorig" title="Sanjaasürengiin Zorig">Sanjaasürengiin Zorig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky" title="Vladimir Bukovsky">Vladimir Bukovsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viacheslav_Chornovil" title="Viacheslav Chornovil">Viacheslav Chornovil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vytautas_Landsbergis" title="Vytautas Landsbergis">Vytautas Landsbergis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zianon_Pazniak" title="Zianon Pazniak">Zianon Pazniak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhelyu_Zhelev" title="Zhelyu Zhelev">Zhelyu Zhelev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meles_Zenawi" title="Meles Zenawi">Meles Zenawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaias_Afwerki" title="Isaias Afwerki">Isaias Afwerki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Opposition<br />movements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beijing_Students%27_Autonomous_Federation" title="Beijing Students&#39; Autonomous Federation">Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charter_77" title="Charter 77">Charter 77</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Forum" title="New Forum">New Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Civic_Forum" title="Civic Forum">Civic Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Albania" title="Democratic Party of Albania">Democratic Party of Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Russia" title="Democratic Russia">Democratic Russia</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/National_League_for_Democracy" title="National League for Democracy">National League for Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Salvation_Front_(Romania)" title="National Salvation Front (Romania)">National Salvation Front</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Democratic_Forces_(Bulgaria)" title="Union of Democratic Forces (Bulgaria)">Union of Democratic Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inter-regional_Deputies_Group" title="Inter-regional Deputies Group">Inter-regional Deputies Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alliance_of_Free_Democrats" title="Alliance of Free Democrats">Alliance of Free Democrats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Democratic_Forum" title="Hungarian Democratic Forum">Hungarian Democratic Forum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Events<br />by location</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Central and<br />Eastern Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_communism_in_Albania" title="Fall of communism in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria#End_of_the_People&#39;s_Republic" title="People&#39;s Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velvet_Revolution" title="Velvet Revolution">Czechoslovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution" title="Peaceful Revolution">East Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/End_of_communism_in_Hungary" title="End of communism in Hungary">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1945%E2%80%931989)#Final_decade_of_the_Polish_People&#39;s_Republic_(1980–1989)" title="History of Poland (1945–1989)">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_revolution" title="Romanian revolution">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia" title="Breakup of Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Soviet Union</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1991_Armenian_independence_referendum" title="1991 Armenian independence referendum">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Azerbaijani_independence_referendum" title="1991 Azerbaijani independence referendum">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Belarusian_strikes" title="1991 Belarusian strikes">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chechen_Revolution" title="Chechen Revolution">Chechnya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singing_Revolution" title="Singing Revolution">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Georgian_independence_referendum" title="1991 Georgian independence referendum">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singing_Revolution" title="Singing Revolution">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singing_Revolution" title="Singing Revolution">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Kazakhstan" title="History of Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Kyrgyzstan#Towards_independence:_1985-1991" title="History of Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Moldova" title="Independence of Moldova">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="History of the Russian Federation">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajikistani_Revolution" title="Tajikistani Revolution">Tajikistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Turkmen_independence_referendum" title="1991 Turkmen independence referendum">Turkmenistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989%E2%80%931991_Ukrainian_revolution" title="1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Uzbek_independence_election" title="1991 Uzbek independence election">Uzbekistan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #eeeeee; vertical-align: middle">Elsewhere</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1989%E2%80%931992)" title="Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bicesse_Accords" title="Bicesse Accords">Angola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Benin#Dissolution" title="People&#39;s Republic of Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8888_Uprising" title="8888 Uprising">Burma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Paris_Peace_Agreements" title="1991 Paris Peace Agreements">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre" title="1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo#Transition" title="People&#39;s Republic of the Congo">Congo-Brazzaville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Derg_regime" title="Fall of the Derg regime">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1990" title="Mongolian Revolution of 1990">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozambican_Civil_War#Transition_to_peace" title="Mozambican Civil War">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_Rebellion" title="Somali Rebellion">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_unification" title="Yemeni unification">South Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Individual<br />events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeltoqsan" title="Jeltoqsan">Jeltoqsan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_Tibetan_unrest" title="1987–1989 Tibetan unrest">1987–1989 Tibetan unrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wars_in_the_Caucasus" title="Wars in the Caucasus">Wars in the Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Polish_strikes" title="1988 Polish strikes">1988 Polish strikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement" title="Polish Round Table Agreement">Polish Round Table Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_9_tragedy" title="April 9 tragedy">April 9 tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Hungary%27s_border_fence_with_Austria" title="Removal of Hungary&#39;s border fence with Austria">Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Round_Table_Talks" title="Hungarian Round Table Talks">Hungarian Round Table Talks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-European_Picnic" title="Pan-European Picnic">Pan-European Picnic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Way" title="Baltic Way">Baltic Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monday_demonstrations_in_East_Germany" title="Monday demonstrations in East Germany">Monday Demonstrations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexanderplatz_demonstration" title="Alexanderplatz demonstration">Alexanderplatz demonstration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall" title="Fall of the Berlin Wall">Fall of the Berlin Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_inner_German_border" title="Fall of the inner German border">Fall of the inner German border</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malta_Summit" title="Malta Summit">Malta Summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_January" title="Black January">Black January</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah" title="1990s post-Soviet aliyah">1990s post-Soviet aliyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helsinki_Summit_(1990)" title="Helsinki Summit (1990)">Helsinki Summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolution_on_Granite" title="Revolution on Granite">Revolution on Granite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">Reunification of Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_Events_(Lithuania)" class="mw-redirect" title="January Events (Lithuania)">January Events in Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Barricades" title="The Barricades">January Events in Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transnistria_War" title="Transnistria War">Transnistria War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_protests_in_Belgrade" title="1991 protests in Belgrade">1991 protests in Belgrade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Belarusian_strikes" title="1991 Belarusian strikes">1991 Belarusian strikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact#End_of_the_Cold_War" title="Warsaw Pact">Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt" title="1991 Soviet coup attempt">August Coup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajikistani_Civil_War" title="Tajikistani Civil War">Tajikistani Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Dissolution of Czechoslovakia">Dissolution of Czechoslovakia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Later events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colour_revolution" title="Colour revolution">Colour revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decommunization" title="Decommunization">Decommunization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lustration" title="Lustration">Lustration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratization" title="Democratization">Democratization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalization" title="Economic liberalization">Economic liberalization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-Soviet_conflicts" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-Soviet conflicts">Post-Soviet conflicts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Sovietism" title="Neo-Sovietism">Neo-Sovietism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Stalinism" title="Neo-Stalinism">Neo-Stalinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Post-communism" title="Post-communism">Post-communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">Yugoslav Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pink_tide" title="Pink tide">Pink tide</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#eeeeee;">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> 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href="/wiki/ANZUS" title="ANZUS">ANZUS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Treaty_Organization" title="Central Treaty Organization">METO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization" title="Southeast Asia Treaty Organization">SEATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization" title="Northeast Asia Treaty Organization">NEATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance" title="Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance">Rio Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1940s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan" title="Morgenthau Plan">Morgenthau Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hukbalahap_rebellion" title="Hukbalahap rebellion">Hukbalahap rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaican_political_conflict" title="Jamaican political conflict">Jamaican political conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dekemvriana" title="Dekemvriana">Dekemvriana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_war_in_the_Baltic_states" title="Guerrilla war in the Baltic states">Guerrilla war in the Baltic states</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Priboi" title="Operation Priboi">Operation <i>Priboi</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Jungle" title="Operation Jungle">Operation <i>Jungle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_states" title="Occupation of the Baltic states">Occupation of the Baltic states</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cursed_soldiers" title="Cursed soldiers">Cursed soldiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable" title="Operation Unthinkable">Operation <i>Unthinkable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gouzenko_Affair" title="Gouzenko Affair">Gouzenko Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">Division of Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution" title="Indonesian National Revolution">Indonesian National Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Vietnam_(1945%E2%80%931946)" title="War in Vietnam (1945–1946)">Operation <i>Masterdom</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Beleaguer" title="Operation Beleaguer">Operation <i>Beleaguer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Blacklist_Forty" title="Operation Blacklist Forty">Operation <i>Blacklist Forty</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran_crisis_of_1946" title="Iran crisis of 1946">Iran crisis of 1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Civil_War" title="Greek Civil War">Greek Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baruch_Plan" title="Baruch Plan">Baruch Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corfu_Channel_incident" title="Corfu Channel incident">Corfu Channel incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Straits_crisis" title="Turkish Straits crisis">Turkish Straits crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restatement_of_Policy_on_Germany" title="Restatement of Policy on Germany">Restatement of Policy on Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Indochina_War" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_Polish_parliamentary_election" title="1947 Polish parliamentary election">1947 Polish parliamentary election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Relations_Conference" title="Asian Relations Conference">Asian Relations Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_1947_crises" title="May 1947 crises">May 1947 crises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Partition_of_India" title="Partition of India">Partition of India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_war_of_1947%E2%80%931948" title="Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948">Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Palestine_war" title="1948 Palestine war">1947–1949 Palestine war</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_civil_war_in_Mandatory_Palestine" title="1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine">1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War" title="1948 Arab–Israeli War">1948 Arab–Israeli War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_and_flight" title="1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight">1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Plan" title="Marshall Plan">Marshall Plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comecon" title="Comecon">Comecon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1948 Czechoslovak coup d&#39;état">1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allied_Control_Council#Incapacitation_of_the_council" title="Allied Control Council">Incapacitation of the Allied Control Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Wathbah_uprising" title="Al-Wathbah uprising">Al-Wathbah uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split" title="Tito–Stalin split">Tito–Stalin split</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Blockade" title="Berlin Blockade">Berlin Blockade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Hyderabad" title="Annexation of Hyderabad">Annexation of Hyderabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madiun_Affair" title="Madiun Affair">Madiun Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_betrayal" title="Western betrayal">Western betrayal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_Curtain" title="Iron Curtain">Iron Curtain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Bloc" title="Eastern Bloc">Eastern Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Bloc" title="Western Bloc">Western Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution" title="Chinese Communist Revolution">Chinese Communist Revolution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malayan_Emergency" title="Malayan Emergency">Malayan Emergency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="March 1949 Syrian coup d&#39;état">March 1949 Syrian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Valuable" title="Operation Valuable">Operation Valuable</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bamboo_curtain" title="Bamboo curtain">Bamboo curtain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Cold_War" title="Arab Cold War">Arab Cold War (1952–1979)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Egyptian_revolution" title="1952 Egyptian revolution">1952 Egyptian revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Intifada_(1952)" title="Iraqi Intifada (1952)">Iraqi Intifada (1952)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mau_Mau_rebellion" title="Mau Mau rebellion">Mau Mau rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953" title="East German uprising of 1953">East German uprising of 1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1953 Iranian coup d&#39;état">1953 Iranian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pact_of_Madrid" title="Pact of Madrid">Pact of Madrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bricker_Amendment" title="Bricker Amendment">Bricker Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1954 Syrian coup d&#39;état">1954 Syrian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrov_Affair" title="Petrov Affair">Petrov Affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domino_theory" title="Domino theory">Domino theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Geneva_Conference" title="1954 Geneva Conference">1954 Geneva Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1954 Guatemalan coup d&#39;état">1954 Guatemalan coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_the_Tuapse" title="Capture of the Tuapse">Capture of the <i>Tuapse</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis" title="First Taiwan Strait Crisis">First Taiwan Strait Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jebel_Akhdar_War" title="Jebel Akhdar War">Jebel Akhdar War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_War" title="Algerian War">Algerian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashmir_Princess" title="Kashmir Princess">Kashmir Princess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bandung_Conference" title="Bandung Conference">Bandung Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Summit_(1955)" title="Geneva Summit (1955)">Geneva Summit (1955)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Emergency" title="Cyprus Emergency">Cyprus Emergency</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences" title="On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences">On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Pozna%C5%84_protests" title="1956 Poznań protests">1956 Poznań protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">Hungarian Revolution of 1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_October" title="Polish October">Polish October</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suez_Crisis" title="Suez Crisis">Suez Crisis</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_will_bury_you" title="We will bury you">We will bury you</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Gladio" title="Operation Gladio">Operation <i>Gladio</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Crisis_of_1957" title="Syrian Crisis of 1957">Syrian Crisis of 1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sputnik_crisis" title="Sputnik crisis">Sputnik crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ifni_War" title="Ifni War">Ifni War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14_July_Revolution" title="14 July Revolution">Iraqi 14 July Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_Lebanon_crisis" title="1958 Lebanon crisis">1958 Lebanon crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis" title="Second Taiwan Strait Crisis">Second Taiwan Strait Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Mosul_uprising" title="1959 Mosul uprising">1959 Mosul uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Tibetan_uprising" title="1959 Tibetan uprising">1959 Tibetan uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War" title="Laotian Civil War">Laotian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitchen_Debate" title="Kitchen Debate">Kitchen Debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Consolidation_of_the_Cuban_Revolution" title="Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution">Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split" title="Sino-Soviet split">Sino-Soviet split</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congo_Crisis" title="Congo Crisis">Congo Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simba_rebellion" title="Simba rebellion">Simba rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_U-2_incident" title="1960 U-2 incident">1960 U-2 incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion" title="Bay of Pigs Invasion">Bay of Pigs Invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1960 Turkish coup d&#39;état">1960 Turkish coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanian%E2%80%93Soviet_split" title="Albanian–Soviet split">Albanian–Soviet split</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Expulsion_of_Soviets_from_Albania" title="Expulsion of Soviets from Albania">Expulsion of Soviets from Albania</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_conflict" title="Iraqi–Kurdish conflict">Iraqi–Kurdish conflict</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_War" title="First Iraqi–Kurdish War">First Iraqi–Kurdish War</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Crisis_of_1961" title="Berlin Crisis of 1961">Berlin Crisis of 1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall">Berlin Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa" title="Annexation of Goa">Annexation of Goa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papua_conflict" title="Papua conflict">Papua conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesia%E2%80%93Malaysia_confrontation" title="Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation">Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sand_War" title="Sand War">Sand War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War" title="Portuguese Colonial War">Portuguese Colonial War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angolan_War_of_Independence" title="Angolan War of Independence">Angolan War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guinea-Bissau_War_of_Independence" title="Guinea-Bissau War of Independence">Guinea-Bissau War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozambican_War_of_Independence" title="Mozambican War of Independence">Mozambican War of Independence</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" title="Cuban Missile Crisis">Cuban Missile Crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Porte%C3%B1azo" title="El Porteñazo">El Porteñazo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Indian_War" title="Sino-Indian War">Sino-Indian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Sarawak" title="Communist insurgency in Sarawak">Communist insurgency in Sarawak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramadan_Revolution" title="Ramadan Revolution">Ramadan Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_War_of_Independence" title="Eritrean War of Independence">Eritrean War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="North Yemen Civil War">North Yemen Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1963 Syrian coup d&#39;état">1963 Syrian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">Assassination of John F. Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aden_Emergency" title="Aden Emergency">Aden Emergency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypriot_intercommunal_violence#Crisis_of_1963–1964" title="Cypriot intercommunal violence">Cyprus crisis of 1963–1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shifta_War" title="Shifta War">Shifta War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Dirty_War" title="Mexican Dirty War">Mexican Dirty War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre" title="Tlatelolco massacre">Tlatelolco massacre</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War" title="Guatemalan Civil War">Guatemalan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colombian_conflict" title="Colombian conflict">Colombian conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1964 Brazilian coup d&#39;état">1964 Brazilian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Civil_War" title="Dominican Civil War">Dominican Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War" title="Rhodesian Bush War">Rhodesian Bush War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366" title="Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66">Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transition_to_the_New_Order" title="Transition to the New Order">Transition to the New Order (Indonesia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASEAN_Declaration" title="ASEAN Declaration">ASEAN Declaration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1966 Syrian coup d&#39;état">1966 Syrian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cultural_Revolution" title="Cultural Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentine_Revolution" title="Argentine Revolution">Argentine Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Border_War" title="South African Border War">South African Border War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_DMZ_Conflict" title="Korean DMZ Conflict">Korean DMZ Conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12-3_incident" title="12-3 incident">12-3 incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_junta" title="Greek junta">Greek junta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_Hong_Kong_riots" title="1967 Hong Kong riots">1967 Hong Kong riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)" title="Years of Lead (Italy)">Years of Lead (Italy)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_Attrition" title="War of Attrition">War of Attrition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhofar_War" title="Dhofar War">Dhofar War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Wadiah_War" title="Al-Wadiah War">Al-Wadiah War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protests_of_1968" title="Protests of 1968">Protests of 1968</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_68" title="May 68">May 68</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)#Pueblo_incident" title="USS Pueblo (AGER-2)">USS <i>Pueblo</i> incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis" title="1968 Polish political crisis">1968 Polish political crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Malaysia_(1968%E2%80%931989)" title="Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989)">Communist insurgency in Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_July_Revolution" title="17 July Revolution">17 July Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Peruvian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1968 Peruvian coup d&#39;état">1968 Peruvian coup d'état</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_Government_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Peru" title="Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru">Revolutionary Government</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1969 Sudanese coup d&#39;état">1969 Sudanese coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_Libyan_revolution" title="1969 Libyan revolution">1969 Libyan revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goulash_Communism" title="Goulash Communism">Goulash Communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict" title="Sino-Soviet border conflict">Sino-Soviet border conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_People%27s_Army_rebellion" title="New People&#39;s Army rebellion">New People's Army rebellion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9tente" title="Détente">Détente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons" title="Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons">Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_September" title="Black September">Black September</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcora_Exercise" title="Alcora Exercise">Alcora Exercise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corrective_Movement_(Syria)" title="Corrective Movement (Syria)">Corrective Movement (Syria)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara_conflict" title="Western Sahara conflict">Western Sahara conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War" title="Cambodian Civil War">Cambodian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Thailand" title="Communist insurgency in Thailand">Communist insurgency in Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_Polish_protests" title="1970 Polish protests">1970 Polish protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koza_riot" title="Koza riot">Koza riot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Realpolitik" title="Realpolitik">Realpolitik</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ping-pong_diplomacy" title="Ping-pong diplomacy">Ping-pong diplomacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_JVP_insurrection" title="1971 JVP insurrection">1971 JVP insurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corrective_revolution_(Egypt)" title="Corrective revolution (Egypt)">Corrective revolution (Egypt)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum" title="1971 Turkish military memorandum">1971 Turkish military memorandum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1971 Sudanese coup d&#39;état">1971 Sudanese coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_Bolivian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1971 Bolivian coup d&#39;état">1971 Bolivian coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Power_Agreement_on_Berlin" title="Four Power Agreement on Berlin">Four Power Agreement on Berlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War" title="Bangladesh Liberation War">Bangladesh Liberation War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to_China" title="1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China">1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen#Disputes_with_North_Yemen" title="South Yemen">North Yemen-South Yemen Border conflict of 1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Yemenite_War" title="First Yemenite War">First Yemenite War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munich_massacre" title="Munich massacre">Munich massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972%E2%80%931975_Bangladesh_insurgency" title="1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency">1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Civil_Wars" title="Eritrean Civil Wars">Eritrean Civil Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Uruguayan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Uruguayan coup d&#39;état">1973 Uruguayan coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Afghan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Afghan coup d&#39;état">1973 Afghan coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Chilean coup d&#39;état">1973 Chilean coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_oil_crisis" title="1973 oil crisis">1973 oil crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnation_Revolution" title="Carnation Revolution">Carnation Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy" title="Spanish transition to democracy">Spanish transition to democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metapolitefsi" title="Metapolitefsi">Metapolitefsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks" title="Strategic Arms Limitation Talks">Strategic Arms Limitation Talks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Iraqi%E2%80%93Kurdish_War" title="Second Iraqi–Kurdish War">Second Iraqi–Kurdish War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus" title="Turkish invasion of Cyprus">Turkish invasion of Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15_August_1975_Bangladeshi_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d&#39;état">15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3_November_1975_Bangladeshi_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="3 November 1975 Bangladeshi coup d&#39;état">Siege of Dhaka (1975)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_November_1975_Bangladeshi_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="7 November 1975 Bangladeshi coup d&#39;état">Sipahi-Janata revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War" title="Angolan Civil War">Angolan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_genocide" title="Cambodian genocide">Cambodian genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_1976_protests" title="June 1976 protests">June 1976 protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozambican_Civil_War" title="Mozambican Civil War">Mozambican Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oromo_conflict" title="Oromo conflict">Oromo conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogaden_War" title="Ogaden War">Ogaden War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_Somali_coup_attempt" title="1978 Somali coup attempt">1978 Somali coup attempt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara_War" title="Western Sahara War">Western Sahara War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Civil_War" title="Ethiopian Civil War">Ethiopian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War" title="Lebanese Civil War">Lebanese Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Albanian_split" title="Sino-Albanian split">Sino-Albanian split</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Indochina_War" title="Third Indochina War">Third Indochina War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian%E2%80%93Vietnamese_War" title="Cambodian–Vietnamese War">Cambodian–Vietnamese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_conflict_(1979%E2%80%931998)" title="Cambodian conflict (1979–1998)">Cambodian conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Condor" title="Operation Condor">Operation <i>Condor</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirty_War" title="Dirty War">Dirty War (Argentina)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1976 Argentine coup d&#39;état">1976 Argentine coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Libyan_War" title="Egyptian–Libyan War">Egyptian–Libyan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Autumn" title="German Autumn">German Autumn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902" title="Korean Air Lines Flight 902">Korean Air Lines Flight 902</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicaraguan_Revolution" title="Nicaraguan Revolution">Nicaraguan Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uganda%E2%80%93Tanzania_War" title="Uganda–Tanzania War">Uganda–Tanzania War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NDF_Rebellion" title="NDF Rebellion">NDF Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chadian%E2%80%93Libyan_War" title="Chadian–Libyan War">Chadian–Libyan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Yemenite_War" title="Second Yemenite War">Second Yemenite War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure" title="Grand Mosque seizure">Grand Mosque seizure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_revolution" title="Iranian revolution">Iranian revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saur_Revolution" title="Saur Revolution">Saur Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War" title="Sino-Vietnamese War">Sino-Vietnamese War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jewel_Movement" title="New Jewel Movement">New Jewel Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Herat_uprising" title="1979 Herat uprising">1979 Herat uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine" title="Seven Days to the River Rhine">Seven Days to the River Rhine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Struggle_against_political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union">Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War" title="Salvadoran Civil War">Salvadoran Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet–Afghan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott" title="1980 Summer Olympics boycott">1980</a> and <a href="/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_boycott" title="1984 Summer Olympics boycott">1984 Summer Olympics boycotts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gera_Demands" title="Gera Demands">Gera Demands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_Civil_War_of_1980%E2%80%932000" class="mw-redirect" title="Peruvian Civil War of 1980–2000">Peruvian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk_Agreement" title="Gdańsk Agreement">Gdańsk Agreement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)" title="Solidarity (Polish trade union)">Solidarity</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Civil_Wars" title="Eritrean Civil Wars">Eritrean Civil Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1980 Turkish coup d&#39;état">1980 Turkish coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ugandan_Bush_War" title="Ugandan Bush War">Ugandan Bush War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_(1981)" title="Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)">Gulf of Sidra incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martial_law_in_Poland" title="Martial law in Poland">Martial law in Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casamance_conflict" title="Casamance conflict">Casamance conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Ethiopian%E2%80%93Somali_Border_War" title="1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War">1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ndogboyosoi_War" title="Ndogboyosoi War">Ndogboyosoi War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada" title="United States invasion of Grenada">United States invasion of Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Able_Archer_83" title="Able Archer 83">Able Archer 83</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative" title="Strategic Defense Initiative">Star Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geneva_Summit_(1985)" title="Geneva Summit (1985)">1985 Geneva Summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_Rebellion" title="Somali Rebellion">Somali Rebellion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk_Summit" title="Reykjavík Summit">Reykjavík Summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_Black_Sea_incident" title="1986 Black Sea incident">1986 Black Sea incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Yemen_civil_war" title="South Yemen civil war">South Yemen civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toyota_War" title="Toyota War">Toyota War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_Lieyu_massacre" title="1987 Lieyu massacre">1987 Lieyu massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Denver" title="Operation Denver">Operation Denver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_JVP_insurrection" title="1987–1989 JVP insurrection">1987–1989 JVP insurrection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army_insurgency" title="Lord&#39;s Resistance Army insurgency">Lord's Resistance Army insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Black_Sea_bumping_incident" title="1988 Black Sea bumping incident">1988 Black Sea bumping incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8888_Uprising" title="8888 Uprising">8888 Uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Solidarity" title="History of Solidarity">Solidarity</a> (<a href="/wiki/Soviet_reaction_to_the_Polish_crisis_of_1980%E2%80%931981" title="Soviet reaction to the Polish crisis of 1980–1981">Soviet reaction</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contras" title="Contras">Contras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_American_crisis" title="Central American crisis">Central American crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_RYAN" title="Operation RYAN">Operation RYAN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007" title="Korean Air Lines Flight 007">Korean Air Lines Flight 007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People_Power_Revolution" title="People Power Revolution">People Power Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasnost" title="Glasnost">Glasnost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perestroika" title="Perestroika">Perestroika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bougainville_conflict" title="Bougainville conflict">Bougainville conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="First Nagorno-Karabakh War">First Nagorno-Karabakh War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1989%E2%80%931992)" title="Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)">Afghan Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama" title="United States invasion of Panama">United States invasion of Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Polish_strikes" title="1988 Polish strikes">1988 Polish strikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement" title="Polish Round Table Agreement">Polish Round Table Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre" title="1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre">1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">Revolutions of 1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall" title="Fall of the Berlin Wall">Fall of the Berlin Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_the_inner_German_border" title="Fall of the inner German border">Fall of the inner German border</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velvet_Revolution" title="Velvet Revolution">Velvet Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_revolution" title="Romanian revolution">Romanian Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peaceful_Revolution" title="Peaceful Revolution">Peaceful Revolution</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1990" title="Mongolian Revolution of 1990">Mongolian Revolution of 1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_Ping_Yu_No._5540_incident" title="Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident">Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_Ping_Yu_No._5202" title="Min Ping Yu No. 5202">Min Ping Yu No. 5202</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_unification" title="Yemeni unification">Yemeni unification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_communism_in_Albania" title="Fall of communism in Albania">Fall of communism in Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia" title="Breakup of Yugoslavia">Breakup of Yugoslavia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1991_Soviet_coup_attempt" title="1991 Soviet coup attempt">1991 August Coup</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Dissolution of Czechoslovakia">Dissolution of Czechoslovakia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Frozen_conflict" title="Frozen conflict">Frozen conflicts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abkhazia_conflict" title="Abkhazia conflict">Abkhazia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan" title="Political status of Taiwan">China-Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Kosovo" title="Political status of Kosovo">Kosovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian%E2%80%93Ossetian_conflict" title="Georgian–Ossetian conflict">South Ossetia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transnistria_War" title="Transnistria War">Transnistria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute" title="Sino-Indian border dispute">Sino-Indian border dispute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Borneo_dispute" title="North Borneo dispute">North Borneo dispute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Foreign policy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Truman_Doctrine" title="Truman Doctrine">Truman Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Containment" title="Containment">Containment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eisenhower_Doctrine" title="Eisenhower Doctrine">Eisenhower Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domino_theory" title="Domino theory">Domino theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hallstein_Doctrine" title="Hallstein Doctrine">Hallstein Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Doctrine" title="Kennedy Doctrine">Kennedy Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peaceful_coexistence" title="Peaceful coexistence">Peaceful coexistence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostpolitik" title="Ostpolitik">Ostpolitik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Doctrine" title="Johnson Doctrine">Johnson Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine" title="Brezhnev Doctrine">Brezhnev Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_Doctrine" title="Nixon Doctrine">Nixon Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulbricht_Doctrine" title="Ulbricht Doctrine">Ulbricht Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_Doctrine" title="Carter Doctrine">Carter Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine" title="Reagan Doctrine">Reagan Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rollback" title="Rollback">Rollback</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinmen_Agreement" title="Kinmen Agreement">Kinmen Agreement</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Ideologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_school_of_economics" title="Chicago school of economics">Chicago school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">Conservatism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">American conservatism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keynesian_economics" title="Keynesian economics">Keynesianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">Libertarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monetarism" title="Monetarism">Monetarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_economics" title="Neoclassical economics">Neoclassical economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reaganomics" title="Reaganomics">Reaganomics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supply-side_economics" title="Supply-side economics">Supply-side economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_capitalism" title="Democratic capitalism">Democratic capitalism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" title="Marxism–Leninism">Marxism–Leninism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Fidel_Castro" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics of Fidel Castro">Castroism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurocommunism" title="Eurocommunism">Eurocommunism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guevarism" title="Guevarism">Guevarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoxhaism" title="Hoxhaism">Hoxhaism</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Juche" title="Juche">Juche</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_Thought" title="Ho Chi Minh Thought">Ho Chi Minh Thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maoism" title="Maoism">Maoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titoism" title="Titoism">Titoism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-imperialism" title="Anti-imperialism">Anti-imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">Nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultranationalism" title="Ultranationalism">Ultranationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauvinism" title="Chauvinism">Chauvinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_nationalism" title="Ethnic nationalism">Ethnic nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">Racism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Zionism" title="Anti-Zionism">Anti-Zionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">Neo-Nazism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autocracy" title="Autocracy">Autocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberal_democracy" title="Liberal democracy">Liberal democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illiberal_democracy" title="Illiberal democracy">Illiberal democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guided_democracy" title="Guided democracy">Guided democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">Social democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third-worldism" title="Third-worldism">Third-worldism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">White supremacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">White nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_supremacy#White_separatism" title="White supremacy">White separatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">Apartheid</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization" title="Southeast Asia Treaty Organization">SEATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Treaty_Organization" title="Central Treaty Organization">METO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">EEC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comecon" title="Comecon">Comecon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neutral_and_Non-Aligned_European_States" title="Neutral and Non-Aligned European States">NN States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASEAN" title="ASEAN">ASEAN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation" title="South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation">SAARC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safari_Club" title="Safari Club">Safari Club</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Propaganda</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Pro-communist</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Active_measures" title="Active measures">Active measures</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Izvestia" title="Izvestia">Izvestia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neues_Deutschland" title="Neues Deutschland">Neues Deutschland</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pravda" title="Pravda">Pravda</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_Moscow" title="Radio Moscow">Radio Moscow</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rud%C3%A9_pr%C3%A1vo" title="Rudé právo">Rudé právo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trybuna_Ludu" title="Trybuna Ludu">Trybuna Ludu</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TASS" title="TASS">TASS</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Russian_Life" title="Russian Life">Soviet Life</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Pro-Western</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amerika_(magazine)" title="Amerika (magazine)">Amerika</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crusade_for_Freedom" title="Crusade for Freedom">Crusade for Freedom</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paix_et_Libert%C3%A9" title="Paix et Liberté">Paix et Liberté</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty" title="Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty">Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_Scare" title="Red Scare">Red Scare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America">Voice of America</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Technological<br />competition</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arms_race" title="Arms race">Arms race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race" title="Nuclear arms race">Nuclear arms race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Historians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gar_Alperovitz" title="Gar Alperovitz">Gar Alperovitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Bailey" title="Thomas A. Bailey">Thomas A. Bailey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Beschloss" title="Michael Beschloss">Michael Beschloss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archie_Brown_(historian)" title="Archie Brown (historian)">Archie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_H._Carroll" title="Warren H. Carroll">Warren H. Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Cioroianu" title="Adrian Cioroianu">Adrian Cioroianu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Costello_(historian)" title="John Costello (historian)">John Costello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cox_(academic)" title="Michael Cox (academic)">Michael Cox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_J._Cull" title="Nicholas J. Cull">Nicholas J. Cull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Davies" title="Norman Davies">Norman Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willem_Drees" title="Willem Drees">Willem Drees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_D._English" title="Robert D. English">Robert D. English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Feis" title="Herbert Feis">Herbert Feis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hugh_Ferrell" title="Robert Hugh Ferrell">Robert Hugh Ferrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Fontaine" title="André Fontaine">André Fontaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anneli_Ute_Gabanyi" title="Anneli Ute Gabanyi">Anneli Ute Gabanyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lewis_Gaddis" title="John Lewis Gaddis">John Lewis Gaddis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Gardner" title="Lloyd Gardner">Lloyd Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Garton_Ash" title="Timothy Garton Ash">Timothy Garton Ash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Gorodetsky" title="Gabriel Gorodetsky">Gabriel Gorodetsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Halliday" title="Fred Halliday">Fred Halliday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jussi_Hanhim%C3%A4ki" title="Jussi Hanhimäki">Jussi Hanhimäki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Earl_Haynes" title="John Earl Haynes">John Earl Haynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_J._Hearden" title="Patrick J. Hearden">Patrick J. Hearden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tvrtko_Jakovina" title="Tvrtko Jakovina">Tvrtko Jakovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Judt" title="Tony Judt">Tony Judt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Klehr" title="Harvey Klehr">Harvey Klehr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Kolko" title="Gabriel Kolko">Gabriel Kolko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_LaFeber" title="Walter LaFeber">Walter LaFeber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Laqueur" title="Walter Laqueur">Walter Laqueur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melvyn_P._Leffler" title="Melvyn P. Leffler">Melvyn P. Leffler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geir_Lundestad" title="Geir Lundestad">Geir Lundestad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vojtech_Mastny_(historian)" title="Vojtech Mastny (historian)">Vojtech Mastny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_F._Matlock_Jr." title="Jack F. Matlock Jr.">Jack F. Matlock Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._McCormick" title="Thomas J. McCormick">Thomas J. McCormick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Naftali" title="Timothy Naftali">Timothy Naftali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marius_Oprea" title="Marius Oprea">Marius Oprea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_S._Painter" title="David S. Painter">David S. Painter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_B._Pickett" title="William B. Pickett">William B. Pickett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_E._Powaski" title="Ronald E. Powaski">Ronald E. Powaski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakov_M._Rabkin" title="Yakov M. Rabkin">Yakov M. Rabkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._E._Sarotte" title="M. E. Sarotte">M. E. Sarotte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger_Jr." title="Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.">Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Schrecker" title="Ellen Schrecker">Ellen Schrecker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giles_Scott-Smith" title="Giles Scott-Smith">Giles Scott-Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shen_Zhihua" title="Shen Zhihua">Shen Zhihua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Snyder" title="Timothy Snyder">Timothy Snyder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athan_Theoharis" title="Athan Theoharis">Athan Theoharis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Thorpe" title="Andrew Thorpe">Andrew Thorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Tism%C4%83neanu" title="Vladimir Tismăneanu">Vladimir Tismăneanu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Vaughan" title="Patrick Vaughan">Patrick Vaughan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_von_Tunzelmann" title="Alex von Tunzelmann">Alex von Tunzelmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odd_Arne_Westad" title="Odd Arne Westad">Odd Arne Westad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Appleman_Williams" title="William Appleman Williams">William Appleman Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Reed_Winkler" title="Jonathan Reed Winkler">Jonathan Reed Winkler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolph_Winnacker" title="Rudolph Winnacker">Rudolph Winnacker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Young" title="Ken Young">Ken Young</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Espionage and<br />intelligence</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Eastern_Bloc_agents_in_the_United_States" title="List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States">List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States" title="Soviet espionage in the United States">Soviet espionage in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_espionage_in_the_United_States" title="Russian espionage in the United 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Mazari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam" title="Abdullah Yusuf Azzam">Abdullah Yusuf Azzam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Haq_(Afghan_leader)" title="Abdul Haq (Afghan leader)">Abdul Haq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_Wardak" title="Abdul Rahim Wardak">Abdul Rahim Wardak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani" title="Burhanuddin Rabbani">Burhanuddin Rabbani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events by year</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1979_in_Afghanistan" title="1979 in Afghanistan">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_in_Afghanistan" title="1980 in Afghanistan">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_in_Afghanistan" title="1981 in Afghanistan">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_in_Afghanistan" title="1982 in Afghanistan">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_in_Afghanistan" title="1983 in Afghanistan">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_in_Afghanistan" title="1984 in Afghanistan">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_in_Afghanistan" title="1985 in Afghanistan">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_in_Afghanistan" title="1986 in Afghanistan">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_in_Afghanistan" title="1987 in Afghanistan">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_in_Afghanistan" title="1988 in Afghanistan">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_in_Afghanistan" title="1989 in Afghanistan">1989</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Military operations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Storm-333" title="Operation Storm-333">Operation 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movement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Miatsum" title="Miatsum">Miatsum</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Azerbaijan" title="Armenians in Azerbaijan">Armenians in Azerbaijan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_Baku" title="Armenians in Baku">Armenians in Baku</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijanis_in_Armenia" title="Azerbaijanis in Armenia">Azerbaijanis in Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Armenian_sentiment_in_Azerbaijan" title="Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan">Anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_relations" title="Armenia–Azerbaijan relations">Armenia–Azerbaijan relations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/First_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="First Nagorno-Karabakh War">First war</a> (1988–1994)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%87ardaql%C4%B1,_Shamkir#Deportation_of_the_Armenian_population" title="Çardaqlı, Shamkir">Çardaqlı clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Askeran_clash" title="Askeran clash">Askeran clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumgait_pogrom" title="Sumgait pogrom">Sumgait pogrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gugark_pogrom" title="Gugark pogrom">Gugark pogrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zvartnots_Airport_clash" title="Zvartnots Airport clash">Zvartnots Airport clash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_violence_in_Shusha_and_Stepanakert" title="1988 violence in Shusha and Stepanakert">Shusha and Stepanakert pogroms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirovabad_pogrom" title="Kirovabad pogrom">Kirovabad pogrom</a></li> <li>Il-76 crash near Leninakan (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_pogrom" title="Baku pogrom">Baku pogrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba%C4%9Fanis_Ayrum" class="mw-redirect" title="Bağanis Ayrum">Bağanis Ayrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Tbilisi%E2%80%93Agdam_bus_bombing" title="1990 Tbilisi–Agdam bus bombing">1990 Tbilisi–Agdam bus bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Ring" title="Operation Ring">Operation Ring</a></li> <li>Voskepar massacre</li> <li>Battle of Togh</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_Azerbaijani_Mil_Mi-8_shootdown" title="1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown">1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_on_Abolishment_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Autonomous_Oblast" title="Law on Abolishment of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast">Law on Abolishment of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Stepanakert" title="Siege of Stepanakert">Siege of Stepanakert</a></li> <li>Operation Dashalty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Azerbaijani_Mil_Mi-8_shootdown" title="1992 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown">1992 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Gushchular_and_Malibeyli" title="Capture of Gushchular and Malibeyli">Capture of Gushchular and Malibeyli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Garadaghly" title="Capture of Garadaghly">Capture of Garadaghly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khojaly_massacre" title="Khojaly massacre">Khojaly massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maraga_massacre" title="Maraga massacre">Maraga massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shusha_(1992)" title="Battle of Shusha (1992)">Capture of Shusha</a></li> <li>Capture of Artsvashen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Goranboy" title="Operation Goranboy">Operation Goranboy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mardakert_and_Martuni_Offensives" title="Mardakert and Martuni Offensives">Mardakert and Martuni Offensives</a></li> <li>Operation Həsənqaya</li> <li>Battle of Lachin</li> <li>Operation Qazançı</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Azerbaijani_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1993 Azerbaijani coup d&#39;état">1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kalbajar" title="Battle of Kalbajar">Battle of Kalbajar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aghdam" title="Battle of Aghdam">Battle of Aghdam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_Summer_Offensives" title="1993 Summer Offensives">1993 Summer Offensives</a></li> <li>Operation Geghamasar</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Horadiz" title="Operation Horadiz">Operation Horadiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Kalbajar" title="Operation Kalbajar">Operation Kalbajar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Baku_Metro_bombings" title="1994 Baku Metro bombings">1994 Baku Metro bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Iranian_Air_Force_C-130_shootdown" title="1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown">1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Bagratashen_bombing" title="1994 Bagratashen bombing">1994 Bagratashen bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refugees_in_Azerbaijan" title="Refugees in Azerbaijan">Refugees in Azerbaijan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Interwar clashes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Mardakert_clashes" title="2008 Mardakert clashes">2008 Mardakert clashes</a></li> <li>January 2009 Agdam military incident</li> <li>September 2009 Agdam military incident</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Nagorno-Karabakh_clashes" title="2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes">2010 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Mardakert_clashes" title="2010 Mardakert clashes">2010 Mardakert clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_border_clashes" title="2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes">2012 Armenian–Azerbaijani border clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes" title="2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes">2014 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Armenian_Mil_Mi-24_shootdown" title="2014 Armenian Mil Mi-24 shootdown">2014 Armenian Mil Mi-24 shootdown</a></li> <li>2016 Odundağ clashes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict" title="2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict">2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</a></li> <li>2017 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_shelling_of_Alxanl%C4%B1" title="2017 shelling of Alxanlı">Shelling of Alxanlı</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes" title="2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes">2018 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes</a></li> <li>2019 clash near Chinari</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2020_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes" title="July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes">July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Incidents_during_the_July_2020_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes" title="Incidents during the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes">Incidents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Azerbaijani_protests" title="2020 Azerbaijani protests">Protests in Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_July_2020_Armenian%E2%80%93Azerbaijani_clashes" class="mw-redirect" title="International reactions to the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes">Reactions</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Second war</a> (2020)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Timeline of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Casualties of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Casualties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="International reactions to the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">International reactions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allegations_of_third-party_involvement_in_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Allegations of third-party involvement in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Allegations of third-party involvement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madagiz_offensive" title="Madagiz offensive">Madagiz offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aras_Valley_campaign" title="Aras Valley campaign">Aras Valley campaign</a></li> <li>Bombardments (<a href="/wiki/2020_Barda_missile_attacks" title="2020 Barda missile attacks">Barda</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_Ganja_missile_attacks" title="2020 Ganja missile attacks">Ganja</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_Ghazanchetsots_Cathedral_shelling" title="2020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling">Ghazanchetsots Cathedral</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_bombardment_of_Martuni" title="2020 bombardment of Martuni">Martuni</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_bombardment_of_Stepanakert" title="2020 bombardment of Stepanakert">Stepanakert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombardment_of_Tartar" title="Bombardment of Tartar">Tartar</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hadrut" title="Battle of Hadrut">Battle of Hadrut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lachin_offensive" title="Lachin offensive">Lachin offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shusha_(2020)" title="Battle of Shusha (2020)">Battle of Shusha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Russian_Mil_Mi-24_shootdown" title="2020 Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown">Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="War crimes in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">War crimes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_prisoners_of_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Armenian prisoners of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Treatment of Armenian POWs</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Post-ceasefire events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan%27s_construction_in_areas_gained_in_the_Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" title="Azerbaijan&#39;s construction in areas gained in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War">Azerbaijan's construction in gained areas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Armenian_protests" title="2020–2021 Armenian protests">2020–2021 Armenian protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping_operations_in_Nagorno-Karabakh#2020" title="Peacekeeping operations in Nagorno-Karabakh">Chaylaggala and Hin Tagher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_border_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis">Border crisis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_2022_Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_clashes" title="September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes">September 2022 escalation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susuzluq_explosion" title="Susuzluq explosion">Susuzluq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peacekeeping_operations_in_Nagorno-Karabakh#2021" title="Peacekeeping operations in Nagorno-Karabakh">Shusha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farukh#History" title="Farukh">Farukh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Armenian_protests" title="2022 Armenian protests">2022 Armenian protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Nagorno-Karabakh" title="Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh">Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Azerbaijani_offensive_in_Nagorno-Karabakh" title="2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh">2023 Azerbaijani offensive</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2023_Armenian_protests" title="2023 Armenian protests">Protests in Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flight_of_Nagorno-Karabakh_Armenians" title="Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians">Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berkadzor_fuel_depot_explosion" title="Berkadzor fuel depot explosion">Berkadzor fuel depot explosion</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Main locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_Artsakh" title="Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh">Administrative divisions of the Republic of Artsakh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stepanakert" title="Stepanakert">Stepanakert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Askeran_Province" title="Askeran Province">Askeran Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadrut_Province" title="Hadrut Province">Hadrut Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashatagh_Province" title="Kashatagh Province">Kashatagh Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martakert_Province" title="Martakert Province">Martakert Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martuni_Province" title="Martuni Province">Martuni Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahumyan_Province" title="Shahumyan Province">Shahumyan Province</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shushi_Province" title="Shushi Province">Shushi Province</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian-occupied_territories_surrounding_Nagorno-Karabakh" title="Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh">Armenian-occupied territories</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aghdam_District" title="Aghdam District">Aghdam District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzuli_District" title="Fuzuli District">Fuzuli District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabrayil_District" title="Jabrayil District">Jabrayil District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalbajar_District" title="Kalbajar District">Kalbajar District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lachin_District" title="Lachin District">Lachin District</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lachin_corridor" title="Lachin corridor">Lachin corridor</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qubadli_District" title="Qubadli District">Qubadli District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zangilan_District" title="Zangilan District">Zangilan District</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/15px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Flag_of_Armenia.svg/30px-Flag_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Levon_Ter-Petrosyan" title="Levon Ter-Petrosyan">Levon Ter-Petrosyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kocharyan" title="Robert Kocharyan">Robert Kocharyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serzh_Sargsyan" title="Serzh Sargsyan">Serzh Sargsyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan" title="Nikol Pashinyan">Nikol Pashinyan</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Flag_of_Artsakh.svg/15px-Flag_of_Artsakh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Flag_of_Artsakh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Artsakh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Flag_of_Artsakh.svg/30px-Flag_of_Artsakh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Artsakh" title="Republic of Artsakh">Republic of Artsakh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artur_Mkrtchyan" title="Artur Mkrtchyan">Artur Mkrtchyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kocharyan" title="Robert Kocharyan">Robert Kocharyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Petrosyan" title="Leonard Petrosyan">Leonard Petrosyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arkadi_Ghukasyan" title="Arkadi Ghukasyan">Arkadi Ghukasyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bako_Sahakyan" title="Bako Sahakyan">Bako Sahakyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arayik_Harutyunyan" title="Arayik Harutyunyan">Arayik Harutyunyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samvel_Shahramanyan" title="Samvel Shahramanyan">Samvel Shahramanyan</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/15px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/30px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayaz_Mutallibov" title="Ayaz Mutallibov">Ayaz Mutallibov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abulfaz_Elchibey" title="Abulfaz Elchibey">Abulfaz Elchibey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev" title="Heydar Aliyev">Heydar Aliyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilham_Aliyev" title="Ilham Aliyev">Ilham Aliyev</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_Community_of_Nagorno-Karabakh" title="Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh">Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayram_Safarov" title="Bayram Safarov">Bayram Safarov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizami_Bahmanov" title="Nizami Bahmanov">Nizami Bahmanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tural_Ganjaliyev" title="Tural Ganjaliyev">Tural Ganjaliyev</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/30px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/15px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/30px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span>&#160;</span><a 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post-Soviet aliyah">1990s post-Soviet aliyah</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>(<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1970 – 2000)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Background</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Causes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Antisemitism in the Soviet Union">Antisemitism in the Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin_and_antisemitism" title="Joseph Stalin and antisemitism">Joseph Stalin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zionism" title="Zionism">Zionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emigration_from_the_Eastern_Bloc" title="Emigration from the Eastern Bloc">Emigration from the Eastern Bloc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sl%C3%A1nsk%C3%BD_trial" title="Slánský trial">Slánský trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-cosmopolitan_campaign" title="Anti-cosmopolitan campaign">Anti-cosmopolitan campaign</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_ethnic_divisions" title="Jewish ethnic divisions">Jewish groups</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Jews" title="Mountain Jews">Mountain Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karaite_Judaism" title="Karaite Judaism">Karaim</a></li> <li><a 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for Soviet Jews">Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Solomon" title="Operation Solomon">Operation Solomon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">Dissolution of the Soviet Union</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">Commonwealth of Independent States</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Pro-government</a>/<a href="/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union" title="Antisemitism in the Soviet Union">antisemitic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Mikhail Suslov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Dragunsky" title="David Dragunsky">David Dragunsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakov_Moiseevich_Fishman" title="Yakov Moiseevich Fishman">Yakov Fishman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Shayevich" title="Adolf 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Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Vanik" title="Charles Vanik">Charles Vanik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson" title="Menachem Mendel Schneerson">Menachem Mendel Schneerson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meir_Kahane" title="Meir Kahane">Meir Kahane</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Israel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Golda_Meir" title="Golda Meir">Golda Meir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Shamir" title="Yitzhak Shamir">Yitzhak Shamir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simcha_Dinitz" title="Simcha Dinitz">Simcha Dinitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avraham_Burg" title="Avraham Burg">Avraham Burg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehemiah_Levanon" title="Nehemiah Levanon">Nehemiah Levanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yehuda_Lapidot" title="Yehuda Lapidot">Yehuda Lapidot</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro-Soviet</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"><img alt="Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/15px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/30px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Gomu%C5%82ka" title="Władysław Gomułka">Władysław Gomułka</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pro-Jewish</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania"><img alt="Socialist Republic of Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/15px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg/30px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965%E2%80%931989%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu" title="Nicolae Ceaușescu">Nicolae Ceaușescu</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organisations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Soviet Union</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation" title="Communist Party of the Russian Federation">Communist Party of the Russian Federation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Zionist_Committee_of_the_Soviet_Public" title="Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public">Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Helsinki_Group" title="Moscow Helsinki Group">Moscow Helsinki Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pamyat" title="Pamyat">Pamyat</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League" title="Jewish Defense League">Jewish Defense League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Jewish_Joint_Distribution_Committee" title="American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee">American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_of_Councils_for_Soviet_Jews" title="Union of Councils for Soviet Jews">Union of Councils for Soviet Jews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Coalition_Supporting_Soviet_Jewry" title="National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry">National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Israel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nativ_(Liaison_Bureau)" title="Nativ (Liaison Bureau)">Nativ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Agency_for_Israel" title="Jewish Agency for Israel">Jewish Agency</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aftermath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Jews_in_Israel" title="Russian Jews in Israel">Russian Jews in Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yisrael_BaAliyah" title="Yisrael BaAliyah">Yisrael BaAliyah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Channel_9_(Israel)" title="Channel 9 (Israel)">Channel 9</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Time_Persons_of_the_Year103" 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Young">Owen D. Young</a> (1929)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mohandas Gandhi</a> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Laval" title="Pierre Laval">Pierre Laval</a> (1931)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (1932)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_S._Johnson" title="Hugh S. Johnson">Hugh S. Johnson</a> (1933)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (1934)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Haile_Selassie" title="Haile Selassie">Haile Selassie</a> (1935)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wallis_Simpson" title="Wallis Simpson">Wallis Simpson</a> (1936)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> / <a href="/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling" title="Soong Mei-ling">Soong Mei-ling</a> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> (1938)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> (1939)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> (1940)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George Marshall</a> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_F._Byrnes" title="James F. Byrnes">James F. Byrnes</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George Marshall</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">The American Fighting-Man</a> (1950)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh" title="Mohammad Mosaddegh">Mohammed Mosaddeq</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II </a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles" title="John Foster Dulles">John Foster Dulles</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harlow_Curtice" title="Harlow Curtice">Harlow Curtice</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">Hungarian Freedom Fighters</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle" title="Charles de Gaulle">Charles de Gaulle</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> U.S. Scientists: <a href="/wiki/George_Beadle" title="George Beadle">George Beadle</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper" title="Charles Stark Draper">Charles Draper</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Franklin_Enders" title="John Franklin Enders">John Enders</a> / <a href="/wiki/Donald_A._Glaser" title="Donald A. Glaser">Donald A. Glaser</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Lederberg" title="Joshua Lederberg">Joshua Lederberg</a> / <a href="/wiki/Willard_Libby" title="Willard Libby">Willard Libby</a> / <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a> / <a href="/wiki/Edward_Mills_Purcell" title="Edward Mills Purcell">Edward Purcell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi" title="Isidor Isaac Rabi">Isidor Rabi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Emilio_Segr%C3%A8" title="Emilio Segrè">Emilio Segrè</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Shockley" title="William Shockley">William Shockley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Edward_Teller" title="Edward Teller">Edward Teller</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Townes" title="Charles H. Townes">Charles Townes</a> / <a href="/wiki/James_Van_Allen" title="James Van Allen">James Van Allen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward" title="Robert Burns Woodward">Robert Woodward</a> </span> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII" title="Pope John XXIII">Pope John XXIII</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Westmoreland" title="William Westmoreland">William Westmoreland</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Baby_boomers" title="Baby boomers">The Generation Twenty-Five and Under</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> <a href="/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">The Apollo 8 Astronauts</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Anders" title="William Anders">William Anders</a> / <a href="/wiki/Frank_Borman" title="Frank Borman">Frank Borman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jim_Lovell" title="Jim Lovell">Jim Lovell</a> </span> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)" title="Middle America (United States)">The Middle Americans</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Sirica" title="John Sirica">John Sirica</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Faisal of Saudi Arabia">King Faisal</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> American Women: <a href="/wiki/Susan_Brownmiller" title="Susan Brownmiller">Susan Brownmiller</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Byerly" title="Kathleen Byerly">Kathleen Byerly</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alison_Cheek" title="Alison Cheek">Alison Cheek</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jill_Ker_Conway" title="Jill Ker Conway">Jill Conway</a> / <a href="/wiki/Betty_Ford" title="Betty Ford">Betty Ford</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ella_Grasso" title="Ella Grasso">Ella Grasso</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carla_Anderson_Hills" title="Carla Anderson Hills">Carla Hills</a> / <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Jordan" title="Barbara Jordan">Barbara Jordan</a> / <a href="/wiki/Billie_Jean_King" title="Billie Jean King">Billie Jean King</a> / <a href="/wiki/Susie_Sharp" title="Susie Sharp">Susie Sharp</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carol_Sutton_(journalist)" title="Carol Sutton (journalist)">Carol Sutton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Addie_L._Wyatt" title="Addie L. Wyatt">Addie Wyatt</a> </span> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" title="Anwar Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini" title="Ruhollah Khomeini">Ayatollah Khomeini</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" title="Lech Wałęsa">Lech Wałęsa</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">The Computer</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Ueberroth" title="Peter Ueberroth">Peter Ueberroth</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Corazon_Aquino" title="Corazon Aquino">Corazon Aquino</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">The Endangered Earth</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Turner" title="Ted Turner">Ted Turner</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> The Peacemakers: <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> / <a href="/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk" title="F. W. de Klerk">F. W. de Klerk</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a> </span> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Ho" title="David Ho">David Ho</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Grove" title="Andrew Grove">Andrew Grove</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ken_Starr" title="Ken Starr">Ken Starr</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudolph Giuliani</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> The Whistleblowers: <a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper_(accountant)" title="Cynthia Cooper (accountant)">Cynthia Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Coleen_Rowley" title="Coleen Rowley">Coleen Rowley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Sherron_Watkins" title="Sherron Watkins">Sherron Watkins</a> </span> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">The American Soldier</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> The Good Samaritans: <a href="/wiki/Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a> / <a href="/wiki/Melinda_French_Gates" title="Melinda French Gates">Melinda Gates</a> </span> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)" title="You (Time Person of the Year)">You</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Bernanke" title="Ben Bernanke">Ben Bernanke</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Protest" title="Protest">The Protester</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="wrap"> <a href="/wiki/Responses_to_the_West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic" title="Responses to the West African Ebola virus epidemic">Ebola Fighters</a>: Dr. Jerry Brown / Dr. <a href="/wiki/Kent_Brantly" title="Kent Brantly">Kent Brantly</a> / Ella Watson-Stryker / Foday Gollah / <a href="/wiki/Salome_Karwah" title="Salome Karwah">Salome Karwah</a> </span> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/MeToo_movement" title="MeToo movement">The Silence Breakers</a> 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Bill Harley Live</i> – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Harley" title="Bill Harley">Bill Harley</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories &amp; Songs</i> – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Vaus" title="Steve Vaus">Buck Howdy</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies</i> – <a href="/wiki/Julie_Andrews" title="Julie Andrews">Julie Andrews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emma_Walton_Hamilton" title="Emma Walton Hamilton">Emma Walton Hamilton</a> (2010)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#cedff2;"><div>In 2011, the category was merged back into <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Children%27s_Album" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award for Best Children&#39;s Album">Best Children's Album</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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style="width:1%">1901–1925</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1901_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1901 Nobel Peace Prize">1901</a>: <a href="/wiki/Henry_Dunant" title="Henry Dunant">Henry Dunant</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Passy" title="Frédéric Passy">Frédéric Passy</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1902: <a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie_Ducommun" title="Élie Ducommun">Élie Ducommun</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Charles_Albert_Gobat" title="Charles Albert Gobat">Charles Gobat</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1903: <a href="/wiki/Randal_Cremer" title="Randal Cremer">Randal Cremer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1904: <a href="/wiki/Institut_de_Droit_International" title="Institut de Droit International">Institut de Droit International</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1905: <a href="/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner" title="Bertha von Suttner">Bertha von Suttner</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1906: <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1907: <a href="/wiki/Ernesto_Teodoro_Moneta" title="Ernesto Teodoro Moneta">Ernesto Moneta</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Louis_Renault_(jurist)" title="Louis Renault (jurist)">Louis Renault</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1908: <a href="/wiki/Klas_Pontus_Arnoldson" title="Klas Pontus Arnoldson">Klas Arnoldson</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Bajer" title="Fredrik Bajer">Fredrik Bajer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1909: <a href="/wiki/Auguste_Beernaert" title="Auguste Beernaert">A. M. F. Beernaert</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Paul_Henri_Balluet_d%27Estournelles_de_Constant" title="Paul Henri Balluet d&#39;Estournelles de Constant">Paul Estournelles de Constant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1910: <a href="/wiki/International_Peace_Bureau" title="International Peace Bureau">International Peace Bureau</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1911: <a href="/wiki/Tobias_Asser" title="Tobias Asser">Tobias Asser</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hermann_Fried" title="Alfred Hermann Fried">Alfred Fried</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1912: <a href="/wiki/Elihu_Root" title="Elihu Root">Elihu Root</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1913: <a href="/wiki/Henri_La_Fontaine" title="Henri La Fontaine">Henri La Fontaine</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1914</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1915</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1916</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1917: <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1918</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1919: <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1920: <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bourgeois" title="Léon Bourgeois">Léon Bourgeois</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1921: <a href="/wiki/Hjalmar_Branting" title="Hjalmar Branting">Hjalmar Branting</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Christian_Lous_Lange" title="Christian Lous Lange">Christian Lange</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1922: <a href="/wiki/Fridtjof_Nansen" title="Fridtjof Nansen">Fridtjof Nansen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1923</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1924</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1925: <a href="/wiki/Austen_Chamberlain" title="Austen Chamberlain">Austen Chamberlain</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Charles_G._Dawes" title="Charles G. Dawes">Charles Dawes</a></span></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/80px-Nobel_Prize.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/120px-Nobel_Prize.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/160px-Nobel_Prize.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="492" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1926–1950</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1926: <a href="/wiki/Aristide_Briand" title="Aristide Briand">Aristide Briand</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Gustav_Stresemann" title="Gustav Stresemann">Gustav Stresemann</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1927: <a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Buisson" title="Ferdinand Buisson">Ferdinand Buisson</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Quidde" title="Ludwig Quidde">Ludwig Quidde</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1928</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1929: <a href="/wiki/Frank_B._Kellogg" title="Frank B. Kellogg">Frank B. Kellogg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1930: <a href="/wiki/Nathan_S%C3%B6derblom" title="Nathan Söderblom">Nathan Söderblom</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1931: <a href="/wiki/Jane_Addams" title="Jane Addams">Jane Addams</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler" title="Nicholas Murray Butler">Nicholas Butler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1932</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1933: <a href="/wiki/Norman_Angell" title="Norman Angell">Norman Angell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1934: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Henderson" title="Arthur Henderson">Arthur Henderson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1935: <a href="/wiki/Carl_von_Ossietzky" title="Carl von Ossietzky">Carl von Ossietzky</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1936: <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Saavedra_Lamas" title="Carlos Saavedra Lamas">Carlos Saavedra Lamas</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1937: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Viscount_Cecil_of_Chelwood" title="Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood">Robert Cecil</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1938: <a href="/wiki/Nansen_International_Office_for_Refugees" title="Nansen International Office for Refugees">Nansen International Office for Refugees</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1939</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1940</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1941</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1942</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1943</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1944: <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945: <a href="/wiki/Cordell_Hull" title="Cordell Hull">Cordell Hull</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Emily_Greene_Balch" title="Emily Greene Balch">Emily Balch</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/John_Mott" title="John Mott">John Mott</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a href="/wiki/Quaker_Peace_and_Social_Witness" title="Quaker Peace and Social Witness">Friends Service Council</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/American_Friends_Service_Committee" title="American Friends Service Committee">American Friends Service Committee</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1948</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/John_Boyd_Orr" title="John Boyd Orr">John Boyd Orr</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bunche" title="Ralph Bunche">Ralph Bunche</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Jouhaux" title="Léon Jouhaux">Léon Jouhaux</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George C. Marshall</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1955</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1956</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Lester_B._Pearson" title="Lester B. Pearson">Lester B. Pearson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Dominique_Pire" title="Dominique Pire">Georges Pire</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Philip_Noel-Baker" title="Philip Noel-Baker">Philip Noel-Baker</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Albert_Luthuli" title="Albert Luthuli">Albert Luthuli</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Dag_Hammarskj%C3%B6ld" title="Dag Hammarskjöld">Dag Hammarskjöld</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross" title="International Committee of the Red Cross">International Committee of the Red Cross</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Societies" title="International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies">League of Red Cross Societies</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1964_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1964 Nobel Peace Prize">1964</a>: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1965_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1965 Nobel Peace Prize">1965</a>: <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNICEF">UNICEF</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575"><a href="/wiki/1966_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1966 Nobel Peace Prize">1966</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575"><a href="/wiki/1967_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1967 Nobel Peace Prize">1967</a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1968_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1968 Nobel Peace Prize">1968</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cassin" title="René Cassin">René Cassin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1969_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1969 Nobel Peace Prize">1969</a>: <a href="/wiki/International_Labour_Organization" title="International Labour Organization">International Labour Organization</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1970_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1970 Nobel Peace Prize">1970</a>: <a href="/wiki/Norman_Borlaug" title="Norman Borlaug">Norman Borlaug</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1971_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1971 Nobel Peace Prize">1971</a>: <a href="/wiki/Willy_Brandt" title="Willy Brandt">Willy Brandt</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#757575">1972</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/1973_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="1973 Nobel Peace Prize">1973</a>: <i><a href="/wiki/L%C3%AA_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c_Th%E1%BB%8D" title="Lê Đức Thọ">Lê Đức Thọ</a>&#160;(declined award)</i>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacBride" title="Seán MacBride">Seán MacBride</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Eisaku_Sat%C5%8D" title="Eisaku Satō">Eisaku Satō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov" title="Andrei Sakharov">Andrei Sakharov</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Betty_Williams" title="Betty Williams">Betty Williams</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Mairead_Maguire" title="Mairead Maguire">Mairead Corrigan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Anwar_Sadat" title="Anwar Sadat">Anwar Sadat</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Menachem_Begin" title="Menachem Begin">Menachem Begin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Teresa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Adolfo_P%C3%A9rez_Esquivel" title="Adolfo Pérez Esquivel">Adolfo Pérez Esquivel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Alva_Myrdal" title="Alva Myrdal">Alva Myrdal</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Alfonso_Garc%C3%ADa_Robles" title="Alfonso García Robles">Alfonso García Robles</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa" title="Lech Wałęsa">Lech Wałęsa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Desmond_Tutu" title="Desmond Tutu">Desmond Tutu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/International_Physicians_for_the_Prevention_of_Nuclear_War" title="International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War">International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" title="Elie Wiesel">Elie Wiesel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/%C3%93scar_Arias" title="Óscar Arias">Óscar Arias</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_peacekeeping" title="United Nations peacekeeping">UN Peacekeeping Forces</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama" title="14th Dalai Lama">Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi" title="Aung San Suu Kyi">Aung San Suu Kyi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA" title="Rigoberta Menchú">Rigoberta Menchú</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk" title="F. W. de Klerk">F. W. de Klerk</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Shimon_Peres" title="Shimon Peres">Shimon Peres</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs" title="Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs">Pugwash Conferences</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat" title="Joseph Rotblat">Joseph Rotblat</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Filipe_Ximenes_Belo" title="Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo">Carlos Belo</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ramos-Horta" title="José Ramos-Horta">José Ramos-Horta</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Ban_Landmines" title="International Campaign to Ban Landmines">International Campaign to Ban Landmines</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Jody_Williams" title="Jody Williams">Jody Williams</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/John_Hume" title="John Hume">John Hume</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/David_Trimble" title="David Trimble">David Trimble</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res" title="Médecins Sans Frontières">Médecins Sans Frontières</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Kim_Dae-jung" title="Kim Dae-jung">Kim Dae-jung</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2001_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2001 Nobel Peace Prize">2001</a>: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Kofi_Annan" title="Kofi Annan">Kofi Annan</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2002_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Nobel Peace Prize">2002</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2003_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2003 Nobel Peace Prize">2003</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shirin_Ebadi" title="Shirin Ebadi">Shirin Ebadi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2004_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2004 Nobel Peace Prize">2004</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wangari_Maathai" class="mw-redirect" title="Wangari Maathai">Wangari Maathai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2005_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2005 Nobel Peace Prize">2005</a>: <a href="/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei" title="Mohamed ElBaradei">Mohamed ElBaradei</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Nobel Peace Prize">2006</a>: <a href="/wiki/Grameen_Bank" title="Grameen Bank">Grameen Bank</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Yunus" title="Muhammad Yunus">Muhammad Yunus</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2007_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2007 Nobel Peace Prize">2007</a>: <a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2008_Nobel_Peace_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="2008 Nobel Peace Prize">2008</a>: <a href="/wiki/Martti_Ahtisaari" title="Martti Ahtisaari">Martti Ahtisaari</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2009 Nobel Peace Prize">2009</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2010 Nobel Peace Prize">2010</a>: <a href="/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo" title="Liu Xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2011_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2011 Nobel Peace Prize">2011</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf" title="Ellen Johnson Sirleaf">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Leymah_Gbowee" title="Leymah Gbowee">Leymah Gbowee</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Tawakkol_Karman" title="Tawakkol Karman">Tawakkol Karman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2012 Nobel Peace Prize">2012</a>: <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2013_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2013 Nobel Peace Prize">2013</a>: <a href="/wiki/Organisation_for_the_Prohibition_of_Chemical_Weapons" title="Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons">Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2014 Nobel Peace Prize">2014</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kailash_Satyarthi" title="Kailash Satyarthi">Kailash Satyarthi</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai" title="Malala Yousafzai">Malala Yousafzai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2015 Nobel Peace Prize">2015</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_National_Dialogue_Quartet" title="Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet">Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2016_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2016 Nobel Peace Prize">2016</a>: <a href="/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos" title="Juan Manuel Santos">Juan Manuel Santos</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2017 Nobel Peace Prize">2017</a>: <a href="/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Abolish_Nuclear_Weapons" title="International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons">International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2018 Nobel Peace Prize">2018</a>: <a href="/wiki/Denis_Mukwege" title="Denis Mukwege">Denis Mukwege</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Nadia_Murad" title="Nadia Murad">Nadia Murad</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2019_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2019 Nobel Peace Prize">2019</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abiy_Ahmed" title="Abiy Ahmed">Abiy Ahmed</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2020_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2020 Nobel Peace Prize">2020</a>: <a href="/wiki/World_Food_Programme" title="World Food Programme">World Food Programme</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2021 Nobel Peace Prize">2021</a>: <a href="/wiki/Maria_Ressa" title="Maria Ressa">Maria Ressa</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Muratov" title="Dmitry Muratov">Dmitry Muratov</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2022_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2022 Nobel Peace Prize">2022</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ales_Bialiatski" title="Ales Bialiatski">Ales Bialiatski</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Memorial_(society)" title="Memorial (society)">Memorial</a>&#160;/&#32;<a href="/wiki/Center_for_Civil_Liberties_(human_rights_organization)" title="Center for Civil Liberties (human rights organization)">Center for Civil Liberties</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2023_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2023 Nobel Peace Prize">2023</a>: <a href="/wiki/Narges_Mohammadi" title="Narges Mohammadi">Narges Mohammadi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2024_Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="2024 Nobel Peace Prize">2024</a>: <a href="/wiki/Nihon_Hidankyo" title="Nihon Hidankyo">Nihon Hidankyo</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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Sharpe</a> (United States)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <dl><dt><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates" title="List of Nobel laureates">Nobel Prize recipients</a></span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:1985_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:1985 Nobel Prize winners">1985</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:1986_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:1986 Nobel Prize winners">1986</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:1987_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:1987 Nobel Prize winners">1987</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:1988_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:1988 Nobel Prize winners">1988</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Template:1989_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:1989 Nobel Prize winners">1989</a></dd> <dd><b>1990 </b></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1991_Nobel_Prizes" title="1991 Nobel Prizes">1991</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1992_Nobel_Prizes" title="1992 Nobel Prizes">1992</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1993_Nobel_Prizes" title="1993 Nobel Prizes">1993</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1994_Nobel_Prizes" title="1994 Nobel Prizes">1994</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/1995_Nobel_Prizes" title="1995 Nobel Prizes">1995</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Laureates_of_the_Prince_or_Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation115" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#99d6ff;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation" title="Template:Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation" title="Template talk:Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Laureates_of_the_Prince_or_Princess_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation115" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Laureates of the <a href="/wiki/Princess_of_Asturias_Awards" title="Princess of Asturias Awards">Prince or Princess of Asturias Award</a> for International Cooperation</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#addeff;"><div id="Prince_of_Asturias_Award_for_International_Cooperation54" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_L%C3%B3pez_Portillo" title="José López Portillo">José López Portillo</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Enrique_V._Iglesias" title="Enrique V. Iglesias">Enrique V. Iglesias</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Belisario_Betancur" title="Belisario Betancur">Belisario Betancur</a></li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/Contadora_group" title="Contadora group">Contadora group</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Alfons%C3%ADn" title="Raúl Alfonsín">Raúl Alfonsín</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Salamanca" title="University of Salamanca">University of Salamanca</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Coimbra" title="University of Coimbra">University of Coimbra</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Javier_P%C3%A9rez_de_Cu%C3%A9llar" title="Javier Pérez de Cuéllar">Javier Pérez de Cuéllar</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/%C3%93scar_Arias" title="Óscar Arias">Óscar Arias</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Delors" title="Jacques Delors">Jacques Delors</a> and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Hans-Dietrich_Genscher" title="Hans-Dietrich Genscher">Hans-Dietrich Genscher</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees" title="United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees</a> (UNHCR)</li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/F._W._de_Klerk" title="F. W. de Klerk">Frederik W. de Klerk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a></li> <li>1993: <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Protection_Force" title="United Nations Protection Force">United Nations Blue Berets stationed in Ex-Yugoslavia</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin" title="Yitzhak Rabin">Yitzhak Rabin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_Soares" title="Mário Soares">Mário Soares</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Helmut Kohl</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Guatemala" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Guatemala">Government of Guatemala</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Guatemalan_National_Revolutionary_Unity" title="Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity">Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Emma_Bonino" title="Emma Bonino">Emma Bonino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olayinka_Koso-Thomas" title="Olayinka Koso-Thomas">Olayinka Koso-Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gra%C3%A7a_Machel" title="Graça Machel">Graça Machel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fatiha_Boudiaf" title="Fatiha Boudiaf">Fatiha Boudiaf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rigoberta_Mench%C3%BA" title="Rigoberta Menchú">Rigoberta Menchú</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fatana_Ishaq_Gailani&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Fatana Ishaq Gailani (page does not exist)">Fatana Ishaq Gailani</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Somaly_Mam" title="Somaly Mam">Somaly Mam</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Duque" title="Pedro Duque">Pedro Duque</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Glenn" title="John Glenn">John Glenn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiaki_Mukai" title="Chiaki Mukai">Chiaki Mukai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov" title="Valeri Polyakov">Valeri Polyakov</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Henrique_Cardoso" title="Fernando Henrique Cardoso">Fernando Henrique Cardoso</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a></li> <li>2002: The <a href="/wiki/Scientific_Committee_on_Antarctic_Research" title="Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research">Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva</a></li> <li>2004: The European Union's <a href="/wiki/Erasmus_Programme" title="Erasmus Programme">Erasmus Programme</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Simone_Veil" title="Simone Veil">Simone Veil</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manhi%C3%A7a_Centre_of_Health_Research&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Manhiça Centre of Health Research (page does not exist)">Manhiça Centre of Health Research</a> (Mozambique), <a href="/wiki/Ifakara_Health_Institute" title="Ifakara Health Institute">Ifakara Health Institute</a> (Tanzania), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Malaria_Research_and_Training_Centre&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Malaria Research and Training Centre (page does not exist)">Malaria Research and Training Centre</a> (Mali), and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kintampo_Health_Research_Centre&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Kintampo Health Research Centre (page does not exist)">Kintampo Health Research Centre</a> (Ghana)</li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Transplantation_Society&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="The Transplantation Society (page does not exist)">The Transplantation Society</a> and the Spanish <a href="/wiki/National_Transplant_Organization" title="National Transplant Organization">National Transplant Organization</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Drayton" title="Bill Drayton">Bill Drayton</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck_Society" title="Max Planck Society">Max Planck Society</a> for the Advancement of Science</li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Program" title="Fulbright Program">Fulbright Program</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#addeff;"><div 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Academy">Khan Academy</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/GAVI" title="GAVI">Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Camfed" title="Camfed">Camfed, Campaign for Female Education</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Ellen_MacArthur" title="Ellen MacArthur">Ellen MacArthur</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Drugs_for_Neglected_Diseases_Initiative" title="Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative">Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative</a> (DNDi)</li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/Organization_of_Ibero-American_States" title="Organization of Ibero-American States">Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture</a> (OEI)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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