--- title: Mikhail Gorbachev | TIME description: Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the only President of the Soviet Union. canonical: https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Mikhail Gorbachev  ## Mikhail Gorbachev Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the only President of the Soviet Union.  ## Mikhail Gorbachev *  Oct 31, 2019 ### [Mikhail Gorbachev: 'In 1989 the World Chose Peace; We Need That Vision Today'](https://time.com/5714770/mikhail-gorbachev-berlin-wall/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 5, 2018 ### [Mikhail Gorbachev: My Memories of George H.W. Bush](https://time.com/5471437/mikhail-gorbachev-george-hw-bush-war-peace/) A remembrance by the only President of the USSR [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 9, 2018 ### [The U.S. and Russia Must Stop the Race to Nuclear War](https://time.com/5191433/mikhail-gorbachev-nuclear-weapons-trump-putin-russia/) "The alarm that people feel today is fully justified," writes the former leader of the U.S.S.R. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 26, 2017 ### [It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War](https://time.com/4645442/gorbachev-putin-trump/) The former Soviet leader calls on Trump, Putin and the U.N. for change [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 23, 2016 ### [Putin Is an Obstacle to Progress](https://time.com/4343154/mikhail-gorbachev-the-new-russia/) 'The rift between government and people can no longer be tolerated' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/","name":"Mikhail Gorbachev"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/"},"name":"Mikhail Gorbachev","jobTitle":null,"description":"Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the only President of the Soviet Union.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt298cf8dfe260e1a7/698a0cfa09208f73234169c4/mikhail-gorbachev-1.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/mikhail-gorbachev/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```