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 1985-1991.