The Greatest Democrat Russia Ever Had
Perhaps if Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, had died in 1991, people back then would have busied themselves assessing his place in history. But, because Gorbachev joined historians, politicians, his comrades, and the public in reviewing his rule, he helped bury himself as a historical figure while still alive.
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MOSCOW – “We all need to have perestroika,” Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union’s last leader lived by that credo. After becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and implementing his program of restructuring and glasnost (openness), he even changed his job title, preferring to be called president.