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Mikhail Gorbachev was a human political leader who lived on Earth during the 20th and 21st centuries. Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, having served from 1985 to 1991.
By 1985, Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko was dying. Shortly before Chernenko's death, Roberta Lincoln was sent to Moscow to help increase Gorbachev's chances of succeeding Chernenko as the Soviet Union's leader. (TOS - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
In the late 1980s, Gorbachev began a program called perestroika to reform the Soviet Union, which by then was experiencing social and economic hardship due to extensive military spending and the inefficiencies inherent in central economic planning. Perestroika was a Russian word meaning "restructuring," and was coupled with the term glasnost, which could mean either "openness" or "publicity" by the Russian government. This program, which was also encouraged by United States President Ronald Reagan, precipitated a liberalization of the Soviet Union - which was to include the elimination of corruption, simplification of bureaucracy, and production improvements. By 1991, hardliners in the Soviet government attempted to roll back the reforms by staging an attempted coup. This coup failed within a few days when the leaders of the coup were unable to consolidate power. After the coup was defeated, many of the Soviet Union's constituent members began to assert their independence, and the Soviet Union was dissolved on December 25, 1991. (TOS novel: Probe)
An image of Gorbachev was one of those seen by Jonathan Archer after he and his crew repaired the damage to the timeline caused by the Na'Kuhl. (ENT episode: "Storm Front" Part II)
Movie director Nicholas Meyer revealed in his DVD commentary for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that Klingon Chancellor Gorkon's name was created by combining the names "Gorbachev" and "Lincoln", drawing on the film's historical and political parallels.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the leader of USSR from 1985 to 1991.
During his tenure, he first refused to accept a 'Star Wars' satellite hijacked by Kobra. He also tried to buid up the Soviet Union's metahuman forces and teams like People's Heroes, Blue Trinity, Red Trinity, Rocket Red Brigade, Soyuz and Red Shadows were formed to compete against America's metahuman population.He also faced a lot of competition from hardliners during his tenure, even surviving an assasination attempt by the NKVDemon
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