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Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Taubman WH) confederacy as war broke out inby William Taubman A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the worlds two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left.