
Mikhail Gorbachev
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

In the Grip of Gazprom
2023

Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde
2003

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
2021

Here to Stay
2009

Laissez-faire
2015

Der springende Punkt
1987

Those Who Dare
2015

A Bitter Taste of Freedom
2011

The Art of Dissent
2021

30 Years of Democracy
2019

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
1996

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
2022

Freedom's Fury
2006

The Long Breakup
2020

Quando c'era Berlinguer
2014

Die Sekretäre
1999

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

The Abyss
1989

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World
1999

Gorbacheva
2024

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984

Hammer & Tickle
2007

Stasi: A State Against Its People
2021

Zero Days
2016

Day of Revelation
1989

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
1999

Faraway, So Close!
1993

Disaster at Chernobyl
2004

Desert Storm: The War Begins
1991

The Battle of Chernobyl
2007

Free to Rock
2017

The Russian Woodpecker
2015

But... Seriously
1994

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
2017

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
2010

Reagan
1998

Lusia in Wonderland
2018

Putin's Witnesses
2018

Disco and Atomic War
2009

Meeting Gorbachev
2019

Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
2019

The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
1990

The Arrow of Time
2017

41
2012

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
2019

Frenemies: Putin and Trump
2020

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
2020

Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende
2012

The Collapse of The Soviet Union
2006

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
1991

Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
2006

He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011

Gorbachev. Heaven
2021

My Favorite War
2020

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019

The Way I See It
2020

Era Of Dance
2017

Our Africa
2018

The Last Days of the USSR
2011

Sakharov. Two Lives
2021

Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
2021

Children of the 20th Congress
1988

The Soviet Story
2008

Palme
2012

New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood
1992

Satans mördare
1995

Hype: The Obama Effect
2008

AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
2025

Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War
1995

Latest News About Doomsday
1991

Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World
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JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025

The 11th Hour
2007

Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung
1990

Bukharin and the Terror
1988

The Man Who Challenged Putin
2023

How to Stage a Coup
2017

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
1999

The School for Scandal
2002

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
2012

The Second Russian Revolution
1991

Zero Hour
2004

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
2023

Days That Shook the World
2003

Goldene Henne
1995

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
2022

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024

The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998

Three Wars
2023

DAS!
1991

maybrit illner
1999

Beckmann
1999

Ein Herz für Kinder
1998

History 101
2020

Menschen
1982

Traitors
2024

First Ladies
2020

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
2024

Album
2008

Код доступа
2017

Легенды кино
2016

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016

Hullu vuosi 1991
2021

HARDtalk
1997