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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
(; ; born 2 March 1931) is a former
Soviet
statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country's head of state from 1988 until
its dissolution
in 1991 (titled as Chairman of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the
Supreme Soviet
from 1989 to 1990, and as
President of the Soviet Union
from 1990 to 1991). He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the
October Revolution
.
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