define mikhail gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev-Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931).Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.ussian MPs demands to try Mikhail Gorbachev for complicity in USSR ... by AKIpress News Agency. 1991: Hardliners stage coup against President Gorbachev Soviet President. has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners.