Mikhail Gorbachev
Saeed Naqvi | Gorby’s model: 1980s’ Sweden as socialism was being refined
Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform
AA Edit | ‘Gorby’ transformed world’s history, not a hero at home
The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever
P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain
Gorbachev’s was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics
Mohan Guruswamy | Christmas ’91: The day Red Flag was lowered
For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin’s mood swings worsened by the alcoholic haze he was in most of the time
25 years after USSR: Will Russian spring return?
No sooner had Gorbachev finished, the red flag came down from the top of the Senate dome in the Kremlin for the last time.
From 1917 to 1991... End of a revolution!
Gorbachev had been aware of its capacity to do mischief, and had made it harder to obtain.