Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b 1931)

Mikhail Gorbachev in Worldwar
Mikhail Gorbachev was the protocol officer at the Soviet embassy to the United States in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1966. Vyacheslav Molotov made a point of learning Gorbachev's name and patronymic because he believed Gorbachev was able despite a tendency to put form ahead of substance.

Mikhail Gorbachev in A World of Difference
Mikhail Gorbachev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union briefly. During that time, he introduced a number of reforms, including placing limitations on the KGB. However, he died of an apparent brain hemmorage after a mere nine months in office. Some suspected foul play.