Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Former President of the Soviet Union is a 

Russian and former Soviet politician, lawyer, and statesman. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. 

Born: 2 March 1931 Privol'noe, Russia.

Education: Moscow State University (1955),

Previous offices: President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), 90 years ( 2020 ) of life.

Nationality: Russian, Soviet

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union, for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending Cold War tensions. ... Gorbachev also earned the respect of many in the West through his policy of non-intervention in the political upheavals that shook the Eastern European “satellite” nations during the late-1980s and early-1990s.

Gorbachev wanted to radically reform how the USSR was governed, how it operated and how it co-operated with foreign countries. He introduced the policies of glasnost and perestroika in an attempt to improve relations with the West and the state of the Soviet economy.

Mikhail Gorbachev introduced perestroika to transform the Soviet Union, but it hastened its collapse. Just six years after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power as General Secretary of the Communist Party and introduced reforms, the Soviet Union collapsed and newly formed independent nations arose from the ashes.