Mikhail Gorbachev

Known for ActingBorn 1931-03-02Died 2022-08-30Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.Read more

Movies & web series

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

Laissez-faire

Ein Herz für Kinder

Latest News About Doomsday

Stasi: A State Against Its People

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

maybrit illner

Desert Storm: The War Begins

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

HARDtalk

Road to 9/11

In the Grip of Gazprom

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

But... Seriously

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator

Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

30 Years of Democracy

Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Era Of Dance

The Last Days of the USSR

The Way I See It

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World

Gorbachev. Heaven

Reagan

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Palme

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

The Battle of Chernobyl

Disaster at Chernobyl

Zero Days

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

Hammer & Tickle

Zero Hour

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

Quando c'era Berlinguer

History 101

The Soviet Story

The Abyss

My Favorite War

Sakharov. Two Lives

Hullu vuosi 1991

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol