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1931–2022 Russia
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, IPA: [gərbəˈtɕof], commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; 2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was General Secretary of the Communist Party and served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, but also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union.
Russia Academics Nobel laureates Politicians Also known as: Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachov
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We are witnessing most profound social change.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Progress towards the civilization of the 21st century will certainly not be simple or easy.
Nobel Address (1991)
In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of "openness" and freedom.
The [Berlin] wall can disappear when those conditions that created it fall away.
Further world progress is now possible only through the search for a consensus of all mankind, in movement toward a new world order.
The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Dangers await only those who do not react to life.
In our times, good relations benefit all. Any worsening of relations anywhere is a common loss.
Nobel Address (1991)
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Never before has the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now.
Nobel Address (1991)
Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.
Nobel Address (1991)
The new integrity of the world, in our view, can be built only on the principles of the freedom of choice and balance of interests.
Nobel Address (1991)
For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.
All members of the world community should resolutely discard old stereotypes and motivations nurtured by the Cold War, and give up the habit of seeking each other's weak spots and exploiting them in their own interests.
Nobel Address (1991)
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