Presses Universitaires de France and Fremeaux & Associates offer this biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, analyzed and explained by Taline Ter Minassian, professor of Russian and Caucasian history, specialist in international relations and the history of intelligence networks. The man who changed the world. Adulated in the West, the man who put an end to the Soviet Union is far from being popular in today's Russia, he was against the will of the Union gravedigger Soviet: "I wanted to save the Soviet Union but I did not succeed..." Taline Ter Minassian takes us into the meanders of the story of this man, an almost ordinary Soviet whose course almost perfectly matches his history of the USSR.