Mikhail Gorbachev Net Worth
Politicians rule the world, but they aren’t necessarily rich. Mikhail Gorbachev however rules and is extremely rich. As the Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has a commanding authority over a lot of decisions that impact hundreds, thousands or even millions of lives every day. This person can impact everyday life, impose restrictions and bans, possibly even start a war. Such powers are not really comprehensive for regular civilians. Born in the unknown on the unknown, Mikhail Gorbachev had a big family of Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva, Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev unknown. Quickly becoming a prominent figure in the political world, this politician studied and graduated Moscow State University where moves towards eclipsing the political totem pole became more and more aggressive. An impressive salary unknown makes this person rich enough but the total net worth of Mikhail Gorbachev is nonetheless impressive – $5 Million.
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A son of Ukrainian and Russian migrants, he endured the Soviet famine of 1932-1933. He was primarily raised by his maternal grandparents, since his parents were busy working, as his mother was a kolkhoz worker, while his father worked as a harvester operator, but also later served in World War II. During his teens, Mikhail followed in the footsteps of his father, working on collective farms and operating combine harvesters. After finished high school, Mikhail enrolled at the Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1955, earning a law degree. Mikhail then moved to Stavropol; even before graduation, Mikhail had joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and with the start of the ‘60s he became more and more involved in politics. In 1963 he was named as Head of the Department of Party Organs in the Stavropol Regional Committee, and seven years later became the First Party Secretary, and by that became one of the youngest people of the party to hold such a position. During his stint as First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, Mikhail focused on improving the lives of simple people, mostly farmers, since he himself had lived the life of a farmer, before making progress as a politician.
After several years of success, Mikhail was named as the Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and also the Chairman of the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs, while in 1978 he was promoted to the Central Committee’s Secretariat for Agriculture position. Little by little Mikhail was becoming one of the most influential people of the party, and then in 1980 became a full member of the CPSU. Just four years later he was made General Secretary of the CPSU following the deaths of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chemenko, becoming the youngest party leader. His power and influence became to rise, and he instituted several new policies that improved the lives of the people of the Soviet Union.
He became known for “perestroika”, and “glasnost”, giving his people the freedom of speech. His popularity rose through the roof, and in 1988 he was made the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and then in 1990 he was elected as the first executive President of the Soviet Union, earning 59% of the votes of the Deputies. Unfortunately, his reign didn’t last long as his new laws and policies led quite deliberately to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Following the end of his presidency, Mikhail remained active in Russian politics, forming two parties along the way, Social Democratic Party of Russia (2001-2004), and Union of Social Democrats (2007-2014), but didn’t have much success.
Thanks to his largely successful career, Mikhail received numerous awards and honors, including Order of St. Andrew in 2011, then Order of Lenin three times, then Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, while in 1989 he was the recipient of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal award, among many other recognitions, which include several honorary doctorates from prestigious universities, including Durham University, Trinity College, Cambridge and the University of Liège.
Regarding his personal life, Mikhail met his wife, Raisa Titarenko, during his studies at Moscow State University. The two married in 1953 and had their only child in 1957, a daughter Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya. His wife passed away in 1999, after losing the battle to leukemia.
Structural info
- Full Name: Mikhail Gorbachev
- Net Worth: $5 Million
- Date Of Birth: March 2, 1931
- Place Of Birth: Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
- Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Profession: Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Education: Moscow State University
- Nationality: Russian
- Spouse: Raisa Gorbacheva (m. 1953–1999)
- Children: Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya
- Parents: Maria Panteleyevna Gorbacheva, Sergey Andreyevich Gorbachev
- IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0329784
- Awards: Nobel Peace Prize, MTV Europe Music Free Your Mind Award, Indira Gandhi Prize, Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold, Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Harvey Prize for Outsta…
Quotes
- My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
- We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.
- If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
- Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.
- I don’t think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don’t think this should be Russia’s goal. I think even the United States doesn’t need to be a superpower. China doesn’t need to be a superpower. It’s a different world.
- You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.
- I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
- The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire.’
- There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.
- I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life – on human life.
- Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
- Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.
- I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.
- I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
- I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.
- I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
- Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.
- What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
- Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
- The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
- If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
- I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.
- Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
- I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century… This is a problem that cannot be postponed.
- Democracy must learn to defend itself.
- Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.
- Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can’t resolve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.
- Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
- The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
- More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
- Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
- I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
- It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
- It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
- On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: ‘You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.’
- If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
- What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
- The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
- America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
- If not me, who? And if not now, when?
- Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
- We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.
- Sometimes it’s difficult to accept, to recognise one’s own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
- A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That’s the most important thing.
- My whole life I worked to perfect our system. I couldn’t wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change. The only way things got done was if you knew somebody or you paid somebody under the table. So what system did we have? It was time to dismantle the whole thing.
Facts
- His name translates as “Michael of the Humpback Whales”.
- His prominent birthmark is called a port-wine stain. It results from a vascular anomaly. The scientific name is nevus flammeus.
- President of Green Cross International, a Swiss-based environmentalist organization. [2003]
- Was briefly overthrown in August 1991 by a group of Communist Party hard-liners angered by his policies but returned to power a couple of days later due to widespread opposition to the coup throughout the country.
- Merited a place in Time magazine’s Special Issue “Heroes of the Environment” (Leaders & Visionaries section) with a tribute penned by Alexei Yablokov, Chairman of the Green Russia political caucus (Issue October 29, 2007).
- Appeared in a commercial for Pizza Hut, making him the only Communist Party official to do advertising work. [1998]
- He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. He resigned as USSR President on Christmas Day, 1991.
- Former leader of USSR.
Trademarks
- Birthmark on his head
Filmography
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Midsummer Madness | 2007 | thanks |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Free to Rock | 2016 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
Forever and a Day | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
Täuschung – Die Methode Reagan | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Himself – Präsident der UDSSR (as Michail Gorbatschow) |
Quando c’era Berlinguer | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
The Daily Show | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Channel 4 News | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Newsnight | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
Der Sturz – Honeckers Ende | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Wir wollten die Republik verändern – Der Liberale Gerhart Baum | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Premiya Muz-TV 2012 | 2012 | TV Special | Himself – Honorary Award: ‘Za vklad v zhizn’ (credit only) |
Docs interdits | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Pozner | 2008-2011 | TV Series | Himself – Interviewee |
Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Gen’l Sec’y of Communist Party – Soviet Union / Gen’l. Sec’y. of Communisty Party, Soviet Union / Gen’l. Sec’y. Communist Party, Soviet Union |
Nuclear Tipping Point | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Countdown to Zero | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
Infrarouge | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Menschen | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Der schönste Irrtum der Geschichte – Wie die Berliner Mauer wirklich fiel | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Michail Gorbatschow) |
Bonner Republik | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Charlie Rose | 1996-2009 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
Nous resterons sur Terre | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
Eine Nacht im November | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Larry King Live | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
Den 11. time | 2007 | TV Series | Himself – Former Leader of the Soviet Union |
The 11th Hour | 2007/I | Documentary | Himself – Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
2006 Women’s World Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
Fabrika zvezd | 2006 | TV Series | Himself – Honored Audience Member |
Karol Wojtyla – Geheimnisse eines Papstes | 2006 | TV Movie | Himself |
Svoboda po russki | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
The Battle of Chernobyl | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
Ein Herz für Kinder | 2005 | TV Series | Himself – Special guest |
2005 Women’s World Awards | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
Sandmann – Historien om en sosialistisk supermann | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | |
Tetsuko no heya | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Big Ideas That Changed the World | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Declassified | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Soviet Premier, 1985-1991 |
2004 Women’s World Awards | 2004 | TV Special | Himself |
Fidel Castro. Ewiger Revolutionär | 2004 | Documentary short | Himself |
Shkola zlosloviya | 2004 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself – General Secretary Soviet Communist Party |
Pulse | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
2003 World Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself |
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
Paul McCartney in Red Square | 2003 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
2002 World Awards | 2002 | TV Special | Himself |
Beckmann | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
Der Frieden und sein Preis – Das Vermächtnis des Alfred Nobel | 2001 | TV Short documentary | Himself – Laureate 1990 (as Michail S. Gorbatschow) |
Tout le monde en parle | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
HARDtalk | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
Water: The Drop of Life | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
20 heures le journal | 1999 | TV Series | Himself – Interviewee |
Als die Mauer fiel. 50 Stunden, die die Welt veränderten | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Festival di Sanremo | 1999 | TV Series | Himself |
The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
On the Edge | 1998/I | Documentary | Himself (president of USSR, 1985-1991) |
American Experience | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Cold War | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Wetten, dass..? | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
Jonathan Dimbleby | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
Life on Earth: A True Civilisation | 1996 | Documentary | Himself – Interviewee |
7 sur 7 | 1991-1996 | TV Series | Himself – Guest / Himself |
The Gulf War | 1996 | TV Movie | Himself |
Biography | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Dret a parlar | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
Thatcher: The Downing Street Years | 1993 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Faraway, So Close! | 1993 | Himself (as Michail S. Gorbatschow) | |
Nový Hyperion aneb Volnost, rovnost, bratrství | 1992 | Documentary | Himself |
Strictly Propaganda | 1992 | Documentary | |
Ein Volk sprengt seine Mauern – 9. November 1989 | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Power Game | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Legends of Tomorrow | 2016 | TV Series | Mikhail Gorbachev |
HyperNormalisation | 2016 | Documentary | Himself – URSS Leader |
Ancient Aliens | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Eighties | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | General Secretary, Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. / Himself – General Secretary, U.S.S.R. |
Zero Days | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
Els dies clau | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Deutschland 83 | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
The Russian Woodpecker | 2015 | Documentary | Former President Russia |
Belluscone. Una storia siciliana | 2014 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Gruen Planet | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us | 2013 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Margaret Thatcher: Prime Minister | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Untold History of the United States | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Palme | 2012 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Russendisko | 2012 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Ich, Putin – Ein Portrait | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Sexocracy: The man of Bunga Bunga | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
Ben Elton: Laughing at the 80s | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
The Iron Lady | 2011 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Love, Hate & Propaganda: The Cold War | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself – Soviet Premier |
The Secret History of Eurovision | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Reagan | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
The Iron Lady: John Campbell on Thatcher | 2011 | Video documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Moy otets Evgeniy | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
50 años de | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Busting the Berlin Wall: Amazing Escape Stories | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
A Wall in Berlin | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
Dorfers Donnerstalk | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
Welcome to the 80’s | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Disko ja tuumasõda | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
L’affaire Farewell, l’espion de la vengeance | 2009 | TV Movie | Himself – Soviet First Secretary of Communist Party |
Double Take | 2009 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
The Shock Doctrine | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
Hype: The Obama Effect | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
La nit al dia | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
La noche del fin del mundo | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Catalunya.cat | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Mikhail Gorbatxov) |
Thatcher | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
The Soviet Story | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
William F. Buckley: Right from the Start | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Frame 313: The JFK Assassination Theories | 2008 | Documentary | Himself – Former General Secretary, Communist Party |
The Strangest Dream | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
El disco del año 07 | 2007 | TV Movie | Himself |
Memòries de la tele | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
Stern TV | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
La imagen de tu vida | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
Freedom’s Fury | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
Hammer & Tickle | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
20 to 1 | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
50 y más | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself |
80s | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Lord of War | 2005 | Himself (uncredited) | |
WWE Hall of Fame 2005 | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
Hyvinvointivaltion loppu? | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Megastructures | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Travels & Traditions | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Husker du… | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Star Trek: Enterprise | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
The Doomsday Clock | 2004 | TV Movie | Himself |
Zero Hour | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself – Premier, Soviet Union |
Michael Jackson: Number Ones | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself (segement ‘Man in the Mirror’) |
Days That Shook the World | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Sendung ohne Namen | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Good Bye Lenin! | 2003 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Guts and Glory | 2002 | Video short | Himself |
The Burning Wall | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
Langer Samstag | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
The 74th Annual Academy Awards | 2002 | TV Special | Himself (taped) (uncredited) |
Temps de silenci | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
Maurizio Costanzo Show | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
Bigbít | 1999-2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
ABC 2000: The Millennium | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | |
Biography of the Millennium: 100 People – 1000 Years | 1999 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself – #49 |
WW III: World War III | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
The Jackal | 1997 | Himself (uncredited) | |
The Wall | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Children of the Revolution | 1996 | Himself – Handshake with Reagan (uncredited) | |
Islamic Fundamentalism & Democracy | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Fame in the Twentieth Century | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Battle for the Soul of Russia | 1992 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Peter’s Friends | 1992 | Himself (uncredited) | |
The Panama Deception | 1992 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Pandora’s Box | 1992 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Memories of 1970-1991 | 1991 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Desert Storm: The War Begins | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
November Days | 1991 | Documentary | Himself |
Hört die Signale | 1991 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol | 1990 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Counterstrike | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
Den gode, den onde & den virk’li sjove | 1990 | TV Series | Himself |
Ceausescu: Behind the Myth | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Saved by the Bell | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
The Abyss | 1989 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Kinkyû UFO genchi shuzai tokuhô: Bei seifu ga uchûjin to kôshiki kaiken! Kyôfu no himitsu kyôtei wo musundeita!? | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Kuvia Gorbatshovista | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
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