RussiaMikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, in power from 1985 to 1991. His policies of glasnost and perestroika loosened political controls and the planned economy, and he negotiated arms reductions with the United States.
In the 12 Axes register, Mikhail Gorbachev leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Mikhail Gorbachev sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Federal
Proposed a looser union treaty
Centrist
Glasnost and partly competitive elections
Centrist
Eased censorship, freed dissidents
Internationalism
"New thinking" and a common European home
Pacifist
Withdrew from Afghanistan, signed INF Treaty
Centrist
Struggled with rising national movements
Socialist
Reform socialism under perestroika
Regulationism
Planning with limited market elements
Moderate
Opened to joint ventures and trade
Agnostic
Atheist who restored religious freedom
Progressive
Reformer within the Soviet system
Technological
Favored modernization of industry
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Mikhail Gorbachev is at Federal 68%. The register median is Unitary 68%.
Security – Freedom
On Security – Freedom, Mikhail Gorbachev is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.nobelprize.org
Portrait: Vladimir Vyatkin, derivative work by Jbarta, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
