Achievement Quote by David Remnick

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of his most…

— Stephen F. Cohen

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

— David Hoffman

Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed.…

— Helmut Kohl

“I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my…

— Markus Wolf

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

— Frank Zappa

When I was 5-years-old, I knew who Khrushchev was.

— Bill Maher

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were often keen…

— Margaret Thatcher

Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become…

— Deepak Chopra

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt…

— Garry Kasparov

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations…

— Michael Beschloss

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media…

— Stefan Heym