Mikhail Gorbachev delivering a speech at the 11th congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Berlin, 1986. Gorbachev was named a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1971, and he was appointed a party secretary of agriculture in 1978. New York, 1993. Gorbachev sought a compromise between these two diametrically opposed alternatives in vain, and so the centrally planned economy continued to crumble with no private enterprise to replace it. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev apparently blamed “Dallas” for the fall of his country. 1987 Gorbachev: October and Perestroika. The consequences of this form of a semi-mixed economy with the contradictions of the reforms themselves brought economic chaos to the country and great unpopularity to Gorbachev. Learn about Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to reform the Soviet Union. The New Russians. The reemergence of Russian nationalism seriously weakened Gorbachev as the leader of the Soviet empire. Russians began to view the Soviet system as one that worked for its own political and economic interests at Russia’s expense. After the August Coup of 1991, Gorbachev understood that influence and support had shifted to Boris Yeltsin. His policies were simply not put into practice. He thus pursued an economic policy that aimed to increase economic growth while increasing capital investment. Consequently, Yeltsin and his supporters demanded Russian control over Russia and its resources. Directed by Werner Herzog, André Singer. He graduated with a degree in law in 1955 and went on to hold a number of posts in the Komsomol and regular party organizations in Stavropol, rising to become first secretary of the regional party committee in 1970. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the Geneva Summit 1985. The new freedoms arising from Gorbachev’s democratization and decentralization of his nation’s political system led to civil unrest in several of the constituent republics (e.g., Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan) and to outright attempts to achieve independence in others (e.g., Lithuania). Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian parliament despite the bitter opposition of Gorbachev. On This Day: Gorbachev removed in coup On Aug. 19, 1991, a coup orchestrated by hard-line Communists removed Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union. The CIS began operations in early 1992. Global Look Press. The new policy of "reconstruction" was introduced in an attempt to overcome the economic stagn… The most significant anti-coup role was played by Yeltsin, who brilliantly grasped the opportunity to promote himself and Russia. Soviet attempts to discourage Baltic independence led to a bloody confrontation in Vilnius in January 1991, after which Yeltsin called upon Russian troops to disobey orders that would have them shoot unarmed civilians. Former Soviet Union leader Michael Gorbachev has said he hopes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory in last week's U.S. election will lead to better Washington, D.C.-Moscow ties, though has … In October 1988 Gorbachev was able to consolidate his power by his election to the chairmanship of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet (the national legislature). Upon his accession, he was still the youngest member of the Politburo. Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?–99). Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. When the Congress of People’s Deputies elected the Supreme Soviet as a standing parliament, Yeltsin was not chosen, since the Congress had an overwhelmingly Communist majority. Mikhail Gorbachev was named a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1971. His changes in foreign policy led to the democratization of eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War. Gorbachev helped take down the long-standing Iron Curtain separating Eastern communist states and Western noncommunist states. He was elected general secretary in 1985. Gorbachev initiated his new policy of perestroika(literally 'restructuring') and its attendant radical reforms in 1986; they were sketched, but not fully spelled out, at the XXVIIth Party Congress in February–March 1986. New York: Random House, 1990. He became a constitutional dictator—but only on paper. Gorbatchev, lui, n’apprend la nouvelle qu’à son réveil. Gorbachev’s radical economists, headed by Grigory A. Yavlinsky, counseled him that Western-style success required a true market economy. The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order. Gorbachev has appeared in Lous Vuitton print advertisements. Mikhail Gorbachev (right) meeting with Ronald Reagan at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1987. With Yuri Andropov, James Baker, Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko. In June 1990 the Russian republic declared sovereignty, establishing the primacy of Russian law within the republic. They were, and they chose Yeltsin. The new leaders, headed by former vice-president Gennady Yanayev have declared a state of emergency. In foreign affairs, Gorbachev cultivated friendlier relations with noncommunist states, including and especially the United States. Good pages, light soiling on top edge. In 1979–80 Gorbachev joined its supreme policy-making body (the Politburo), and in 1985 he was elected general secretary of the CPSU. As democratically elected, noncommunist governments came to power in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in late 1989–90, Gorbachev agreed to the phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from those countries. Events outpaced him, however, and the Russian government under Yeltsin readily assumed the functions of the collapsing Soviet government as the various republics agreed to form a new commonwealth under Yeltsin’s leadership. The intimate, poetic and revealing documentary explores the world of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. The Politburo was dominated by old men, and they were overwhelmingly Russian. Mikhail Gorbachev (centre) in East Berlin, 1986. He did not regard the structure of the Soviet economic system itself to be a cause of the country’s growing economic problems. In December 1987 he signed an agreement with U.S. President Ronald Reagan for their two countries to destroy all existing stocks of intermediate-range nuclear-tipped missiles. Due to senility, Brezhnev had not been in effective control of the country during his last few years, and Kosygin had died in 1980. Gorbachev’s bid for the presidency was unsuccessful: he earned less than 1 percent of the vote. Updates? Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Agreeing with Cohen's assessment of the conservative character of the Soviet population is Benn, David Wedgewood, “ Gorbachev's Progress II: Confronting the Conservatives, ” The World Today 44 (June 1988): 94 – 95 Google Scholar. Yeltsin for the first time had a national platform. Gorbachev was also the first general secretary of the Communist Party not to have served in the armed forces during World War II. Gorbachev launched glasnost (“openness”) as the second vital plank of his reform efforts. His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. When he took office, Yegor Ligachev was made head of the party’s Central Committee Secretariat, one of the two main centres of power (with the Politburo) in the Soviet Union. In the face of a collapsing economy, rising public frustration, and the continued shift of power to the constituent republics, Gorbachev wavered in direction, allying himself with party conservatives and the security organs in late 1990. In 1985 Gorbachev brought Boris Yeltsin to Moscow to run that city’s party machine. The Russian parliament passed radical reforms that would introduce a market economy, and Yeltsin also cut funding to a large number of Soviet agencies based on Russian soil. When Brezhnev died in 1982, most elite groups understood that the Soviet economy was in trouble. His goal was quite plain: to bring the Soviet Union up to par economically with the West. Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich mēkhəyēl´ sĭrgā´yəvich gərbəchof´ [ key], 1931–, Soviet political leader. He proved a promising Komsomol member, and in 1952 he entered the law school of Moscow State University and became a member of the Communist Party. Moreover, Gorbachev radically changed Soviet political life when he removed the constitutional article according to which the only legal political organization was the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Mikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, (born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. Ronald Reagan (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev in Red Square, Moscow, 1988. Gorbachev therefore transformed Soviet foreign policy. This meant that all the republics, including first and foremost Russia, could have a similar type of presidency. His team was more heavily Russian than that of his predecessors. In 1989 the newly elected Congress of People’s Deputies elected from its ranks a new U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet that, in contrast to its predecessor of that name, was a real standing parliament with substantial legislative powers. In parliament he pilloried Gorbachev, the Communist Party, corruption, and the slow pace of economic reform. One of the Russian questions was whether the voters were in favour of a directly elected president. At the June 1987 plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Gorbachev presented his "basic theses", which laid the political foundation of economic reform for the remainder of the existence of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the Congress, under his leadership, abolished the Communist Party’s constitutionally guaranteed monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union, thus paving the way for the legalization of other political parties. Gorbachev also moved quickly to shift fundamental political powers to the Soviet Union’s constituent republics. Entering into an unavoidable alliance with Yeltsin, Gorbachev quit the Communist Party, disbanded its Central Committee, and supported measures to strip the party of its control over the KGB and the armed forces. Over the course of Yury Andropov’s 15-month tenure (1982–84) as general secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev became one of the Politburo’s most highly active and visible members; and, after Andropov died and Konstantin Chernenko became general secretary in February 1984, Gorbachev became a likely successor to the latter. (From left to right) Nancy and Ronald Reagan and Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev on the Reagans' ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., 1992. The Congress elected a new Supreme Soviet, and Gorbachev, who had opted for an executive presidency modeled on the U.S. and French systems, became the Soviet president, with broad powers. In 1987–88 he pushed through reforms that went less than halfway to the creation of a semi-free market system. Yury V. Andropov and then Konstantin Chernenko led the country from 1982 until 1985, but their administrations failed to address critical problems. Gorbachev was the son of Russian peasants in Stavropol territory (kray) in southwestern Russia. But the Communist hard-liners who had replaced reformers in the government proved undependable allies, and Gorbachev and his family were briefly held under house arrest from August 19 to 21, 1991, during a short-lived coup by the hard-liners. It was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a free association of sovereign states founded by the elected leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Belorussia). Perestroika was an attempt to modernise and ‘rebuild’ the Soviet state. In foreign affairs, Gorbachev from the beginning cultivated warmer relations and trade with the developed nations of both West and East. He believed that the opening up of the political system—essentially, democratizing it—was the only way to overcome inertia in the political and bureaucratic apparatus, which had a big interest in maintaining the status quo. Yeltsin banned the Communist Party in Russia and seized all of its property. Gorbachev quickly set about consolidating his personal power in the Soviet leadership. At the age of 54, he became the youngest man to head the government of the Soviet Union since Joseph Stalin had come to power in the 1920s. In May 1989 Gorbachev was elected chairman of this Supreme Soviet and thereby retained the national presidency. In 1990 Gorbachev received the Nobel Peace Prize for his “leading role in the peace process” in Europe. There were increasing complaints that the “Soviets” had destroyed the Russian environment and had impoverished Russia in order to maintain their empire and subsidize the poorer republics. Both as general secretary and as president, Gorbachev supported democratic reforms. Gorbachev won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2004, along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Yeltsin came into conflict with the more conservative members of the Politburo and was eventually removed from the Moscow post in late 1987. But, in part because his economic reforms were being obstructed by the Communist Party, Gorbachev tried to restructure the government’s legislative and executive branches in order to release them from the grip of the CPSU. Chernenko died on March 10, 1985, and the following day the Politburo elected Gorbachev general secretary of the CPSU. He demanded the reinstatement of Gorbachev as U.S.S.R. president, but, when Gorbachev returned from house arrest in Crimea, Yeltsin set out to demonstrate that he was the stronger leader. In the later Gorbachev years, the opinion that the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and establishment of the U.S.S.R. were mistakes that had prevented Russia from continuing along the historical path traveled by the countries of western Europe and had made Russia more economically backward vis-à-vis the West gained greater acceptance. In 1988 Gorbachev became Soviet president and chief of state. He proved less willing to release the Soviet economy from the grip of centralized state direction, however. From a strictly legal point of view, this should have been done by court order, not by presidential decree. Mikhaïl Gorbachev, l'ancien président de l'Union Soviétique, à Leipzig, en Allemagne, le 15 mars 2013. On the other hand, Gorbachev’s policies deprived the Soviet Union of ideological enemies, which in turn weakened the hold of Soviet ideology over the people. 1983 Textile and Light Industry Workers' Union. The coup was carried out by hard-line Communist Party, KGB, and military officials attempting to avert a new liberalized union treaty and return to the old-line party values. That same day, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. “Dallas” was a hit show on CBS that started in the late 1970s, and was one of the most successful television series ever made. Moreover, the huge defense expenditures that characterized the Cold War years were one of the causes of Soviet economic decline. Mikhail Gorbachev (left), general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with Erich Honecker, first secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1986. Mikhaïl Sergueïevitch Gorbatchev ou Gorbatchov1 (en russe : Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв, [mʲɪxɐˈil sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ɡərbɐˈtɕɵf]2 Écouter), né le 2 mars 1931 à Privolnoïe (ru) dans l'actuel kraï de Stavropol, est un homme d'État soviétique et russe qui dirigea l'URSS entre 1985 et 1991. He returned to public life as an elected deputy from Moscow to the Congress of People’s Deputies in 1989. Nobody knows that burden like Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union. Smith, Hedrick. He enacted policies of glasnost (“openness”) and perestroika (“restructuring”), and he pushed for disarmament and demilitarization in eastern Europe. Capital investment was to improve the technological basis of the Soviet economy as well as promote certain structural economic changes. Gorbachev worked with U.S. President Ronald Reagan to lessen the political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Throughout 1989 he had seized every opportunity to voice his support for reformist communists in the Soviet-bloc countries of eastern Europe, and, when communist regimes in those countries collapsed like dominoes late that year, Gorbachev tacitly acquiesced in their fall. After the coup foundered in the face of staunch resistance by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and other reformers who had risen to power under the democratic reforms, Gorbachev resumed his duties as Soviet president, but his position had by now been irretrievably weakened. To this end, he called for rapid technological modernization and increased worker productivity, and he tried to make the cumbersome Soviet bureaucracy more efficient and responsive. As the U.S.S.R.’s economic problems became more serious (e.g., rationing was introduced for some basic food products for the first time since Stalin) and calls for faster political reforms and decentralization began to increase, the nationality problem became acute for Gorbachev. Dissatisfaction with the Yeltsin administration prompted Gorbachev to run for president of Russia in 1996. It seems that initially even Gorbachev believed that the basic economic structure of the U.S.S.R. was sound and therefore only minor reforms were needed. Mikhail Gorbachev became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress in 1961. In 1990 Gorbachev ran without opposition for president of the Soviet Union. Soviet television has since been broadcasting regular condemnations of Mr Gorbachev's policies. Limited force was used in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and the Baltic states to quell nationality problems, though Gorbachev was never prepared to use systematic force in order to reestablish the centre’s control. Since his involuntary retirement, Gorbachev has raised money for … Accordingly, under changes made to the constitution in December 1988, a new bicameral parliament called the U.S.S.R. Congress of People’s Deputies was created, with some of its members directly elected by the people in contested (i.e., multicandidate) elections. Andropov believed that the economic stagnation could be remedied by greater worker discipline and by cracking down on corruption. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Gorbachev served as the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985–91) as well as the last president of the Soviet Union (1990–91). Yeltsin appeared to be willing to go along with this vision but, in reality, wanted Russia to dominate the new union and replace the formal leading role of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet politician. In October 1988 General Secretary Gorbachev was elected to the chairmanship of the presidium of the national legislature (the Supreme Soviet). TV show Dallas was the main reason behind the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, it has been claimed. Russia systematically laid claim to most Soviet property on its territory. The Congress elected a new Supreme Soviet, and Gorbachev, who had opted for an executive presidency modeled on the U.S. and French systems, became the Soviet president, with broad powers. In March 1991, when Gorbachev launched an all-union referendum about the future Soviet federation, Russia and several other republics added some supplementary questions. In 1989 the parliament elected from its ranks a new Supreme Soviet and made Gorbachev its chairman. Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even … Gorbachev, however, never succeeded in making the jump from the command economy to even a mixed economy. Non-Russian representation at the top of the party and the government had declined over time. Dallas, with its portrayals of Western wealth, success and power; may have played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union, former leader Mikhail Gorbachev believes. The Russian government under Yeltsin assumed many of the responsibilities of the former Soviet Union. The reign of Peter I (the Great; 1689–1725), The reign of Catherine II (the Great; 1762–96), Government administration under Catherine, Education and social change in the 18th century, The Civil War and War Communism (1918–21), The Gorbachev era: perestroika and glasnost, Ethnic relations and Russia’s “near-abroad”, Consolidation of power, Syria, and campaign against the West. The new body superseded the Supreme Soviet as the highest organ of state power. He used his newfound legitimacy to promote Russian sovereignty, to advocate and adopt radical economic reform, to demand Gorbachev’s resignation, and to negotiate treaties with the Baltic republics, in which he acknowledged their right to independence. 1984 Human Rights in the Soviet Union. In 1990 Gorbachev received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his striking achievements in international relations. He owed a great deal of his steady rise in the party to the patronage of Mikhail Suslov, the leading party ideologue. Mr Gorbachev famously stated: “The most puzzling development in modern politics is the apparent determination of western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in western Europe.” This effectively undermined all attempts by Gorbachev to establish a Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned the presidency of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. (Scholarly.) Glasnost also allowed the media more freedom of expression, and editorials complaining of depressed conditions and of the government’s inability to correct them began to appear. This responsibility was to pass to the local soviets. Please select which sections you would like to print: Corrections? This had led to cuts in expenditures in education, social services, and medical care, which hurt the regime’s domestic legitimacy. He traveled abroad extensively and was brilliantly successful in convincing foreigners that the U.S.S.R. was no longer an international threat. 1984 The City Where We Live: the Soviet State and Trade Unions. Under his new policy of glasnost (“openness”), a major cultural thaw took place: freedoms of expression and of information were significantly expanded; the press and broadcasting were allowed unprecedented candour in their reportage and criticism; and the country’s legacy of Stalinist totalitarian rule was eventually completely repudiated by the government. He became a candidate member of the Politburo in 1979 and a full member in 1980. Pris de court, il donne immédiatement l’ordre de «ne pas se mêler de ce qui se passe en RDA, même après l’ouverture du Mur». Gorbachev realised military spending had to be reduced and this meant ending the arms race with the USA. Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power London: Macmillan, 1993. Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart said that former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev told him that the 1980s soap opera 'had more effect' in … Gorbachev eschewed the totalitarian use of power that had traditionally worked to keep the Soviet economy functioning, but at the same time he resisted any decisive shift to private ownership and the use of free-market mechanisms. Clearly, Yeltsin wished to rid Russia of the encumbrance of the Soviet Union and to seek the disbandment of that body. Mikhail Gorbachev played a key role in ending the Soviet Union’s post-World War II domination of eastern Europe. At that time, Boris Yeltsin was president of Russia. In so doing, Gorbachev helped end the Cold War. Gorbachev was the single most important initiator of a series of events in late 1989 and 1990 that transformed the political fabric of Europe and marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. When Gorbachev became head of the Communist Party in 1985, he launched perestroika (“restructuring”). Strongly believing that the Soviet Union needed massive liberalization in order to revitalize both the Soviet economy and society, Gorbachev immediately began implementing reforms. In addition, he believed that the path to economic and social recovery required the inclusion of people in the political process. Gorbachev understood that the defense burden, perhaps equivalent to 25 percent of the gross national product, was crippling the country. On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned the presidency of the Soviet Union, which ceased to exist that same day. However, a Siberian deputy stepped down in his favour. He did not, however, develop the power to implement these decisions. A new parliament, the Congress of People’s Deputies, was convened in the spring of 1989, with Gorbachev presiding. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Overview of Mikhail Gorbachev, including a discussion of his policy of perestroika. Under perestroika, some limited free-market mechanisms also began to be introduced into the Soviet economy, but even these modest economic reforms encountered serious resistance from party and government bureaucrats who were unwilling to relinquish their control over the nation’s economic life. (Perceptive journalistic account.) In this important book, Judy Shelton, one of America's leading experts on the Soviet economy, demonstrates that rampant inflation and a huge budget deficit, theoretically impossible under Marxism, have ravaged the Soviet economy and are forcing Mikhail Gorbachev into a … Well, it turns out it might have been successful at a lot more things than just entertaining American audiences! General secretary of the CPSU: perestroika to the fall of the Soviet Union, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev, Academy of Achievement - Biography of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Spartacus Educational - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of the Ages - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, The Cold War Museum - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, RT Russiapedia - Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Mikhail Gorbachev - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up).
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