Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
(1931– )
While leader of the Communist Party and president of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev presided over the dismantling of the USSR. He had been brought into the Politburo by KGB chief Yuri Andropov and rose to general secretary of the party in 1985. He was president of the Soviet Union from 1988 to 1991 and introduced a period of liberalization. Gorbachev made use of the security services for antireligious campaigns in Central Asia. His efforts with MVD head Vitalii Fedorchuk to purge and reform the police were unsuccessful, and Gorbachev’s reform policies, including glasnost and perestroika, were resisted by KGB figures such as Viktor Chebrikov and Filip Bobkov. Conservative bureaucrats and senior police officials sought to replace him through the August putsch of 1991 but were forced to back down, although Gorbachev was left a weakened figure, overshadowed by Boris Yeltsin.
Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence.
Robert W. Pringle.
2014.
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