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Definitions for gorbachev
ˈgɔr bəˌtʃɔf, -ˌtʃɒf, ˌgɔr bəˈtʃɔf, -ˈtʃɒfgor·bachev

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachevnoun

    Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)

Wiktionary

  1. Gorbachevnoun

    A Russian surname

    Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

  2. Etymology: From Горбачёв, from горбач - hunchback.

Wikipedia

  1. Gorbachev

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the only President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s. Gorbachev was born in Privolnoye, Russian SFSR, to a poor peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian heritage. Growing up under the rule of Joseph Stalin, in his youth he operated combine harvesters on a collective farm before joining the Communist Party, which then governed the Soviet Union as a one-party state. Studying at Moscow State University, he married fellow student Raisa Titarenko in 1953 and received his law degree in 1955. Moving to Stavropol, he worked for the Komsomol youth organization and, after Stalin's death, became a keen proponent of the de-Stalinization reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee in 1970, overseeing construction of the Great Stavropol Canal. In 1978, he returned to Moscow to become a Secretary of the party's Central Committee, and in 1979 joined its governing Politburo. Three years after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev—following the brief tenures of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko—in 1985 the Politburo elected Gorbachev as general secretary, the de facto leader. Although committed to preserving the Soviet state and its Marxist-Leninist ideals, Gorbachev believed significant reform to be necessary for survival. He withdrew troops from the Soviet–Afghan War and embarked on summits with United States president Ronald Reagan to limit nuclear weapons and end the Cold War. Domestically, his policy of glasnost ("openness") allowed for enhanced freedom of speech and press, while his perestroika ("restructuring") sought to decentralize economic decision-making to improve its efficiency. His democratization measures and formation of the elected Congress of People's Deputies undermined the one-party state. Gorbachev declined to intervene militarily when various Eastern Bloc countries abandoned Marxist–Leninist governance in 1989–1992. Internally, growing nationalist sentiment threatened to break up the Soviet Union, leading Marxist–Leninist hardliners to launch the unsuccessful August Coup against Gorbachev in 1991. In the coup's wake, the Soviet Union dissolved against Gorbachev's wishes. After resigning the presidency, he launched the Gorbachev Foundation, became a vocal critic of Russian presidents Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, and campaigned for Russia's social-democratic movement. Gorbachev is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the second half of the 20th century. The recipient of a wide range of awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, he is praised for his role in ending the Cold War, introducing new political and economic freedoms in the Soviet Union, and tolerating both the fall of Marxist–Leninist administrations in eastern and central Europe and the reunification of Germany. In Russia he is often derided for facilitating the dissolution of the Soviet Union—an event which weakened Russia's global influence and precipitated an economic collapse in Russia and associated states.

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  1. gorbachev

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. Gorbachev's policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) as well as his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims led to the end of the Cold War. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. Despite his impact on ending the Cold War and his Nobel Peace Prize, he is despised in his home country due to the economic downturn that occurred under his leadership and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gorbachev in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gorbachev in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of gorbachev in a Sentence

  1. George Beebe:

    Most Russians see U.S. relations as a fundamental source of the relationship's problems, in their view, Washington grew too ambitious in the aftermath of the Cold War. It attempted to remake Russia and remake the world according to American preferences and this from the Russian point of view proved to be disastrous.It helped to produce the collapse of the Russian state during the 1990s. It led to destabilizing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. It produced a long series of punitive sanctions by the U.S. meant to coerce Moscow into submission.And rather than pursuing Gorbachev's bold vision of a common European home that included Russia in the broad security architecture, the U.S. opted to make NATO the foundation for European security, to bring NATO closer to Russia's borders.

  2. President Reagan:

    General SecretaryGorbachev, if John Heubusch seek peace, if John Heubusch seek prosperity for the Soviet Union andEastern Europe, if John Heubusch seek liberalization : Come here, to this gate, mr.Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

  3. John Heubusch:

    How times have changed, right ? because, Mikhail Gorbachev, who dismantled the former Soviet Union, was one of the first world leaders to receive the award, personally from Ronald Reagan in 1992. BIDEN ADMIN SAYS ‘ NO DECISION HAS BEEN MADE ’ ON POSSIBLE BAN OF RUSSIAN OIL.

  4. Richard McGregor:

    They have a lot of time for Vladimir Putin, they see Vladimir Putin as someone who's restoring a strong government whereas( former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev) destroyed it.

  5. Robert Pape:

    Trump needs to take the same tone Ronald Reagan took when he met with Mikhail Gorbachev, the two can’t easily recreate that, but that should be the goal.

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  • गोर्बाचेवHindi
  • ಗೋರ್ಬಚೇವ್Kannada

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