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Mikhail Gorbachev (Background Information)



Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev or better known to Americans as Gorby, a Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize, Time Person of the Year 1987 and 1989, receiver of the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award and the last head of state of the Union of the Soviet Socialists Republics(U.S.S.R) or better known as Soviet Union, was born on the 2nd of March 1931, in Privolnoye, U.S.S.R.



Born in the Privolnoye, a rural area in Russia, into a peasant family, Mikhail Gorbachev worked in the collectivized farms in his teens. He graduated from the prestigious Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree of law. During this period, Mikhail Gorbachev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became an active member of it








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