Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1931-03-02
Day of Death
2022-08-30
Place of Birth
Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Mikhail Gorbachev
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.
Filmography (77)
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
2025
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
2025
Gorbacheva
2024
The Man Who Challenged Putin
2023
In the Grip of Gazprom
2023
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
2022
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
2021
Gorbachev. Heaven
2021
The Art of Dissent
2021
Stasi: A State Against Its People
2021
Sakharov. Two Lives
2021
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
2021
The Long Breakup
2020
My Favorite War
2020