Biography: Mikhail Gorbachev: a Man Who Changed the World

I'm sure the difficulty in putting any biography together is immense. However, the life story of Mikhail Gorbachev is too complex to be easily adapted to a 45 minute run-time. While this video does a fairly good job of outlining the highlights of his life and that time period of Soviet history, it fails to provide concise details of each section. I would like to see the Biography team develop this into a longer video or even a multi-part series.

Overall, I would recommend watching it if Soviet/Russian history is a topic of study for you.

Big thumbs up to Biography fpr finally giving this man his due. Spent my college years listening to professors and students demonize this man, and give Reagan all of the credit for the dismantling of the Communist system. This is typical, I have found that most American educators are quite limited in their abilities. I am not easily impressed with American media, but this is a good one.

Certainly one of the better Biography episodes. Given the limited run time of these videos (a little under 45 minutes) it covered quite a little without too much time wasted on nonsense. Gorbachev's words are spoken by the man who was his official interpreter, and there are numerous individuals given a moment on screen who were witness to the times or were directly involved, including, but not restricted to, friends and family friends. A well worth watching video.

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