Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) - The 5th General Secretary of the CPSU, the president of the Soviet Union, winner of the Nobel Prize.Michael was born in a family of peasants in Stavropol Territory. To work in his biography of Mikhail Gorbachev became the age of 13, while studying at school. In 1948 he went to serve in the army Chief of the warehouse.Higher education in the biography of Gorbachev was obtained in the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he studied at the Law Department. Having finished the Moscow State University, began working in the prosecutor's office in Stavropol. In 1952 joined the Communist Party. By 1955, rose to the post of first secretary of the Stavropol Territory, and in 1966 became the first secretary of Party Committee.As Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in the biography of Gorbachev was busy in 1978. And since 1980 he became a member of the Politburo. Five years later, Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1990, Gorbachev was elected president of the USSR, so he also held the two highest positions: President, Secretary-General. The activities of Gorbachev as president was accompanied by numerous economic, political reforms.When in 1991 occurred the coup, Gorbachev was removed from power, but later he returned and again took up his post as the USSR collapsed in December. After a short biography of Mikhail Gorbachev were stacked powers of the president, he still did not leave politics. In 2000, Gorbachev led ROSDP, and from next year - SDPR (he was the leader of the party until 2004). In 1990 he received the Nobel Prize for the conduct of the peace process in the international community.