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Mikhail Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, IPA: [gərbəˈtɕof], commonly anglicized as Gorbachev; born 2 March 1931) was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. His attempts at reform helped to end the Cold War, but ... ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and dissolved the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader who came of age after World War II. He was better educated than his predecessors and far more honest. He readily acknowledged that the Soviet economy was in a shambles and falling farther behind the other industrialized nations every year. He made a dramatic appeal for restructuring (perestroika) of the economy.
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Mikhail Gorbachev did not have an easy childhood. Born on March 2, 1931, he was just old enough to remember when, during the 1930s, both of his grandfathers were caught in the purges and arrested. Although they were released after prison, having been tortured in one case and internally exiled and used as forced labor in the other, young Misha Gorbachev knew what it was like to live in the home of an enemy of the people.
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Mikhail Gorbachev has a strong sense of duty, is serious and tends to see everything on the dark side. Mikhail should guard against emotional inhibition and depression. He prefers to lead a secluded, modest and simple life.
Mikhail Gorbachev,who served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991,is coming to Pasadena as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. Known as a reformer, he began to democratize the oppressive system he inherited, bringing an end to Communist rule in the USSR and Eastern Europe. He helped bring about the end of the Cold War by signing two broad disarmament pacts with the West. He initiated a period of "perestroika," or government reform, that ushered in democratic and capitalist reforms in the USSR and implemented a policy of "glasnost," or openness. The country began to open public discussions about current and historical problems to the media and international community. His extraordinary achievements, earned him the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Mikhail Gorbachev served as leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991. He began to democratize the oppressive system he inherited, bringing an end to Communist rule in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Gorbachev brought two words into the global lexicon: perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness), and in an effort to secure relations with the West, he signed two broad disarmament pacts. As a result of his extraordinary achievements, Mikhail Gorbachev was the recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. He is currently president of the Gorbachev Foundation, known as the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies.
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