“Perestroika is an urgent necessity arising from the profound processes of development in our socialist society. This society is ripe for change.”

About Mikhail Gorbachev

Politician • Russian

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('restructuring') were pivotal in ending the...