Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died. In 1990, Gail Sheehy traveled to the Soviet Union, Vienna, and Italy to detail the rise of the 'man who changed the world.' Revisit the story from the VFArchive:
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev? How did he manage to rise through the ranks of a repressive regime with his revolutionary vision intact? Over six months, GAIL SHEEHY traveled to the Soviet Union, Vienna, and Italy to compile an extraordinary human document on the man from nowhere.
In the tiny village where he grew up, she traced a harrowing childhood of famine, German occupation, and Stalinist terror. In Stavropol, the"Warm Siberia" where he might have languished as an apparatchik, she learned how he became a fixer for party powers like K.G.B. chief Andrpov, Everywhere, she gained new insights about the controversial redhead he has loved ever since she caught his eve on a dance floor— Raisa Maximovna.
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