Selected speeches and articles (Record no. 222415)

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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 327.47
Item number GORS
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Personal name Mikhail Gorbachev
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Title Selected speeches and articles
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Edition statement 2nd ed.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Moscow
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Progress Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1987
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Extent 605 p.
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Dimensions 20x13 cm
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Summary, etc. Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991). Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai in 1931 into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens, operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a candidate member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief "interregna" of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected general secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level. Gorbachev's policies of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring") and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War. Under this program, the role of the Communist Party in governing the state was removed from the constitution, which inadvertently led to crisis-level political instability with a surge of regional nationalist and anti-communist activism culminating in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev later expressed regret for his failure to save the Soviet state, though he has insisted that his policies were not failures but rather were vitally necessary reforms, which were sabotaged and exploited by opportunists. He was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1989, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, and the Harvey Prize in 1992.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Speeches and Articles
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political Parties
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Topical term or geographic name entry element World Politics
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Personal name GORBACHEV (Mikhail)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Political Science St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   327.47 GORS GF01994 04/13/2022 04/13/2022 George Fernandes Collections