“He wanted to show that he was a Russian patriot and so he would live out his life in Russia. I know this was extremely painful for his wife.”
Mikhail Gorbachev's biographer William Taubman talks to Dion Fanning about how he came to know the last leader of the USSR and how if he hadn't humiliated Boris Yeltsin at a meeting in 1987, the history of the Soviet Union might have been different.
