Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War

Joshua Sanborn, professor of history and chair of Russian and East European studies at Lafayette College, gives a lecture on the career and importance of Mikhail Gorbachev in advance of Gorbachev s visit to Lafayette in celebration of Lafayette s new Oechsle Center for Global Education. Sanborn touches upon Gorbachev s personal history and his rise up the ladder of the Communist Party before turning to his actions as the leader of the Soviet Union between 19851991.