Mikhail Gorbachev, Charismatic Leader

Mikhail Gorbachev, Charismatic Leader. The Great Personality of Time. The role of leadership is very important to put nation on the way of glory and prosperity. A good leadership infuses the qualities of awareness, consciousness, mobilization, sense of direction, and defense against the adversaries. The Russians were lucky having such competent leader. Gorbachev was a history-making leader who changed the course of global history. Gorbachev possessed a visionary leadership. He was a Charismatic Leader in the real sense of the meaning. Our world is not poor in the production of great statesman, who left indelible stamps of their excellence on the face of history, we have Washington, Lenin, M

ao, Martin Luther, Gandhi, kemal and Nelson Mandela who made their motherland free and prosperous and set them firmly on the way to honour and glory. It was President Gorbachev, who gave the world a new peaceful global scenario. Gorbachev was the recipient of a devotion and loyalty seldom accorded to a leader. He is not only a great but greatest statesman head and shoulder above to all his contemporary history. He stands alone and incomparable in respect of his achievement. He was a paragon of unimpeachable integrity, indomitable will and undaunted courage. He was a man of principles a firm believer in free world and a scrupulous follower of global peace. Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most prominent peace-loving figures during the intense Cold War era, served as the President of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. During the intense cold War, Gorbachev was considered one of the most peace loving personalities of the world. Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931 and paid the debt of nature in 2022 leaving behind a legacy of transformative leadership and global change. Gorbachev is best known for introducing two groundbreaking policies. He introduced policies of Glasnost or Openness and Perestroika or Restructuring for reforming the Soviet Union. These reforms aimed to revitalize the Soviet Union’s political and economic systems. His name is synonymous with the normalization of relations between East and West. his revolutionary approach to politics raised hopes across both Eastern and Western Europe. Gorbachev introduced a revolution with the politics of perestroika. He was a revolutionary leader. After his policies, hopes were raised in both East and West Europe. One of Gorbachev’s most significant accomplishments was his role in ending the inclement and sanguinary Cold War in the world. Through nuclear disarmament negotiations with the President of United States, he helped reduce the nuclear arms race and ease tensions between superpowers. He signed several pivotal pacts and agreements with the United States to limit nuclear weapons, earning global recognition for his efforts. The disarmament negotiations initiated by Gorbachev change the world order. Gorbachev ends the Cold War and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Credit goes to this great personality for ending intense Cold War and reducing nuclear arms race and easing tension between the superpowers. Gorbachev’s policies of tolerance and appeasement brought sigh of relief for the people of Europe, USA and world. The threat of third World War was eliminated. The world organizations in recognition of his meritorious services for world peace conferred a wide range of awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1990, Gorbachev received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his striking achievements in international relations. The European people praised him for his role in ending the Cold War. His tolerance and policy of appeasement towards East Europe caused downfall of Marxist–Leninist governments in eastern and central Europe and the German reunification. Gorbachev has been remembered as a reformer and change maker. In 1989, the people of East Germany call for freedom and Gorbachev tacitly helped them. In 1990, Gorbachev met the then German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl in the Crimea. He clears the path for German reunification. Enemies become friends. By the summer of 1990, he had agreed to the reunification of East with West Germany and even assented to the prospect of that reunified nation’s becoming a member of the Soviet Union’s longtime enemy, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In Europe, Mikhail Gorbachev is revered as the statesman who brought Germany back together again and brought peace. Between late 1989 and 1990, noncommunist governments were elected and came to power in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Gorbachev agreed to the phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from those countries. This decision cemented his reputation as a statesman who brought peace and unity to Europe. Following the Geneva Accord of 1988, he withdraw Russian forces from Afghanistan in 1989 and ended the most costly war that eroded and severely strained the economy of Soviet Union and stopped the unparallel miseries endured by the People of Afghanistan. Millions perished and more than five million people were displaced and still facing hardships. Gorbachev also played a crucial role in global diplomacy and supported the peaceful settlement of political and social issues. He contributed his efforts for the ending of fratricidal war between Iran and Iraq. In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government invaded Kuwait; Gorbachev endorsed President Bush's condemnation of it and helped for liberation of Kuwait. However, Gorbachev’s reforms also had unintended consequences. His social, political, and economic policies fueled nationalist movements within Soviet republics, ultimately leading to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. A failed military coup in August 1991 further weakened his political standing, and Boris Yeltsin emerged as the new leader of Russia. While Gorbachev is celebrated internationally as a reformer and peacemaker, many Russians view him less favorably. They often blame him for weakening Russia’s global influence, causing economic collapse, and overseeing the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite these criticisms, Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy as a transformative leader who reshaped the world order remains undeniable. He will forever be remembered as the architect of peace, the man who ended the Cold War, and a visionary who dared to challenge the status quo for the sake of progress.