Mikhail Gorbachev

The day is not far away when you will turn the lastpage of your 1986 calendar and, like most other people,ask yourself: What kind of a year has the one going outbeen? Where have our hopes been realized and wherehave we been disappointed? This question, it must besaid, is not at all rhetorical, for...

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S REPLIES TO QUESTIONS PUT BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NEWSWEEK On May 18 Mikhail Gorbachev met with a group of journalists from the Washington Post Co., talked to them and answered their questions. Participating in the meeting were Katharine Graham, Chairman of the Board of the...

Perestroika, which means "restructuring", is Mikhail Gorbachev's own account of the policies he is currently implementing in the USSR. Created 70 years after the October Revolution, perestroika constitutes a revolution in ideas, attitudes and practice that entails a radical alteration of Russian...