What is Mikhail Gorbachev?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Mikhail Gorbachev | image = RIAN archive 850809 General Secretary of the CPSU CC M. Gorbachev (crop).jpg | caption = Gorbachev in 1987 | image_size = | order = [[President of the Soviet Union]] | vicepresident = [[Gennady Yanayev]] | term_start = 15 March 1990 | term_end = 25 December 1991<ref>As [[:en:President of USSR|President]]</ref> | predecessor = Office established Himself (as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet) | successor = Office abolished ([[:en:Dissolution of the Soviet Union|USSR dissolved]])<br>([[Boris Yeltsin]] as [[President of Russia]]) | deputy2 = [[Anatoly Lukyanov]] | term_start2 = 25 May 1989 | term_end2 = 15 March 1990<ref>As [[:en:Chairman of the Supreme Soviet]]</ref> | predecessor2 = Office established <br>Himself (as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet) | successor2 = Anatoly Lukyanov (as Speaker of Parliament),<br> Himself (as President) | term_start3 = 1 October 1988 | term_end3 = 25 May 1989<ref>As [[:en:Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]]</ref> | predecessor3 = [[Andrei Gromyko]] | successor3 = Office abolished<br> Himself (as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet) | order4 = [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General Secretary]] of the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] | deputy4 = [[Yegor Ligachev]]<br /> [[Vladimir Ivashko]] <small>(1990-1991)</small> | term_start4 = 11 March 1985 | term_end4 = 24 August 1991 | predecessor5 = [[Konstantin Chernenko]] | successor5 = Office abolished | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1931|3|2}} | birth_place = Privolnoye, [[Stavropol Krai]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Un