• Anders Åslund, Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform Cornell University Press, 1991
• Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-288052-7
• Farnham, Barbara. "Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat" Political Science Quarterly 2001 116(2): 225-252. ISSN 0032-3195
• Marshall Goldman, What Went Wrong with Perestroika? W.W. Norton, 1992
• Jackson, William D. "Soviet Reassessment of Ronald Reagan, 1985–1988" Political Science Quarterly 1998–1999 113(4): 617-644. ISSN 0032-3195
• Jack Matlock, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004)
• Jack Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)
• David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York: Random House, 1993)_.
• Robert Strayer, Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? Understanding Historical Change M. E. Sharpe. 1998

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External links

• MikhailGorbachev.org
• The Gorbachev Foundation
• Public Opinion about Gorbachev
• The Encyclopaedia of Marxism, from which parts of this article have been taken.
• Green Cross International official site
• Mikhail S. Gorbachev Biography, in Russian
• Out in the Cold Guardian interview March 8, 2005
• TIME 100 for 2004: Mikhail Gorbachev
• CNN Cold War – Profile: Mikhail Gorbachev from the 1998 series
  • September 1997 interview
• Biography, talks, tributes and quotes
• Ubben Lecture at DePauw University
• Mikhail Gorbachev's Project Syndicate op/eds
• Commanding Heights: Mikhail Gorbachev (PBS interview), April 2001.
• USSR – USA: Summit Documents and Materials, Washington May 30 – June 3, 1990
• Truth
• [1] Gorbachev to speak at University of Dallas as McDermott Guest Lecturer
• Works by or about Mikhail Gorbachev in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Persondata
NAME	Gorbachev, Mikhail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Горбачёв, Михаи́л Серге́евич (Russian); Gorbačëv, Mihail Sergeevič (alternate transliteration); Gorbachyov, Mikhail Sergeyevich (alternate transliteration)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	leader of the Soviet Union
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Privolnoye, Russia
DATE OF DEATH	living
PLACE OF DEATH	living

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