Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, known for his reform policies of perestroika and glasnost that helped end the Cold War and ultimately led to the dissolution of the USSR.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Soviet politician
head of state
human
lawyer
awardReceived Nobel Peace Prize
Order of Lenin
burialPlace Novodevichy Cemetery
causeOfDeath long illness
child Irina Virganskaya
citizenship Russia
Soviet Union
countryOfBirth Soviet Union
countryOfDeath Russia
dateOfBirth 1931-03-02
dateOfDeath 2022-08-30
educatedAt Moscow State University
endTime 1991-08-24
1991-12-25
ethnicGroup Russians
familyName Mikhail Gorbachev self-linksurface differs
surface form: Gorbachev
fieldOfStudy law
givenName Mikhail
knownFor ending the Cold War
glasnost
perestroika
policies leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union
reforms in the Soviet Union
languageSpoken Russian
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
nativeName Mikhail Gorbachev self-linksurface differs
surface form: Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв
participatedIn Cold War
partnerInTreaty Ronald Reagan
placeOfBirth Privolnoye
Stavropol Krai
placeOfDeath Moscow
pointInTime 1990
politicalIdeology reform communism
positionHeld Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
surface form: Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

General Secretary of the Communist Party
surface form: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev self-linksurface differs
surface form: President of the Soviet Union
religion Russian Orthodox Church
residence Moscow
sexOrGender male
signed Reagan–Gorbachev summits
surface form: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
spouse Raisa Gorbacheva
startTime 1985-03-11
1990-03-15
workLocation Kremlin

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dissolution of the Soviet Union participant Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev positionHeld Mikhail Gorbachev self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: President of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Irina Virganskaya relative Mikhail Gorbachev
fall of the Berlin Wall significantPerson Mikhail Gorbachev
Raisa Gorbacheva spouse Mikhail Gorbachev
Konstantin Chernenko succeededBy Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost policy supportedBy Mikhail Gorbachev
this entity surface form: Soviet reformers