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Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Soviet leader & advocate of political reform

Born: 1931
Died: 2022
Lived in: Russia & the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of perestroika and glasnost sought economic and political reform, while his international diplomacy helped change the course of the Cold War.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

He received the Nobel Peace Prize for 1990 but delivered his Nobel lecture in Oslo in June 1991.

Words by Mikhail Gorbachev

“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.”

Nobel Lecture, 5 June 1991

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“It is an ethical value.”

Nobel lecture, 5 June 1991 · On peace as an ethical value

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“Applying conventional wisdom to perestroika is unproductive.”

Nobel lecture, 5 June 1991 · On Soviet political reform

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