Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in Privolnoye, .
He went to Moscow Univerisity where he graduated in Law. .
Mikhail Gorbachev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952 and acted .
as First Secretary of Stavropol City Committee of Komsomol (1955-1958). He was later .
elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a .
Member in 1971. From 1978-1985 he served as Secretary of the Central Committee with .
responsibility for agriculture. From 1985 to 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev was the General .
Secretary of the Communist Party. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Supreme .
Soviet from 1970-1990 and acted as Chairman for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the.
Soviet of the Union in 1984-85. From 1985 to 1990 he was a Member in the Presidium .
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, serving as its President (1989-1990). He served as .
President of the USSR in 1990-1991.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the world's most important individual in the late 1980's .
because he was not like any of his predecessors. He changed the system significantly by .
breaking up the Soviet Union and the release of the Eastern Bloc countries. Gorbachev .
was different, he did not have power or prestige as his main goal in life. He was an .
idealist. Mikhail Gorbachev made a difference in history by rapidly ending the Soviet .
Union, ending the Cold War and discrediting socialism , ushered in the globalization of .
finance, the information age, and the rise of the Internet. The polarized world of the Cold .
War would not have allowed the globalization of the world wide web communication. By .
doing exactly what he had done before he had attained power, he brought about a .
peaceful transformation of the soviet society when in the previous eight decades millions .
had been killed by direct or indirect orders of the soviet leadership. Except this time he .
had the power to do anything he wanted because he wanted because he was the leader of .
