Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the C
Gorbachev in 1987
Gorbachev and his Ukrainian maternal grandparents, late 1930s
Gorbachev on a visit to East Germany in 1966
Gorbachev (right) with his mentor Yuri Andropov in 1973
Raisa Gorbacheva
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Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva was a Soviet and Russian activist and philanthropist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Mikhail Gorbachev
…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…
Gorbacheva in 1985
Gorbacheva's grave in 2012. The tombstone was altered in 2022 to accommodate her husband's burial.