(born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. His efforts to democratize...

Gorbachev, Mikhail FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS 1931– Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931, to a peasant family in the Stavropol region of Russia. He excelled in both the classroom and the local...

Mikhail Sergeyivich Gorbachev was, among many things, the last leader of the Soviet Union, and, more than anyone else, responsible for the abolition of that post and that nation. He was born in the Russian Caucasus in 1931 and followed what had become,...

‘New thinking’ was Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s own label for his fresh approach to the Soviet Union’s foreign policy, which became particularly apparent in his speech to the United Nations in December 1988, when he also...

(born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol region, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet official and last president of the Soviet Union (1990–91). After earning a law degree from Moscow State University (1955), he rose through the ranks to become a full...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev[1] (Russian: ÐÐ'Ñ...аÐ'Ìл СеÑгеÌевÐ'Ñ Ð"оÑбаÑÑ'в (help·info), IPA: [mʲɪxÉËil sʲɪrËgʲeɪvʲɪʨ gÉrbÉËʨof]; born 2 March 1931) is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the...