Vadim Valentinovich Sagladin

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Wadim Walentinowitsch Sagladin ( Russian Вадим Валентинович Загладин ; born June 23, 1927 in Moscow ; † November 17, 2006 ibid) was a Soviet political scientist and personal advisor to Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev .

Sagladin graduated with a diploma from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations , where he taught from 1949 to 1956. From 1964 to 1988 he was First Deputy Head of the International Department of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU , Central Committee Secretaries were at the time Boris Nikolajewitsch Ponomarjow and Anatoli Fjodorowitsch Dobrynin . He wrote various speeches for Brezhnev . In 1990 he became a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From 1988 to 1991 he was the closest advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev as head of the international department. He is considered the real architect of glasnost , perestroika and foreign policy of the Soviet Union . From 1991 until his death he worked as a consultant for the Gorbachev Foundation.

In 2004 he was awarded the Planetary Consciousness Prize . He has published various books on international relations. Sagladin was Vice President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (AEAC), which works to improve relations between Russia and NATO .

Works (selection)

  • Global Problems of the Present with Iwan Frolow, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1982
  • There is no reasonable alternative to peace (original title: Mir - al'ternativy net ), 1987, Dietz-Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 3-320-00975-3
  • And now world domestic policy: the foreign policy of perestroika (preface by Theo Sommer), Horizonte-Verlag, Rosenheim 1990, ISBN 3-926116-18-8
  • The new way of thinking: Politics in the age of globalization with Mikhail Gorbachev and Anatoli Tschernjajew , Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-12754-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former Soviet leader Gorbachev aide Zagladin dies at 79 , RIA Novosti , November 20, 2006 (English)
  2. ↑ Wadim Sagladin ( Memento of the original dated May 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at World Political Forum (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theworldpoliticalforum.org
  3. ↑ Gorbachev's aide Zagladin: When word is mightier than deed , by Andrei Kolesnikov , RIA Novosti , November 22, 2006 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sagladin, Vadim Valentinovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 2006
Place of death Moscow