Mikhail Gorbachev (The Tsar's New Clothes)

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв, : Mihail Sergejevič Gorbačov) is a politician, who served as the final  from 1985 to 1991. He is notable for implementing the policies of ("openness") allowed for enhanced  and, while his  ("restructuring") sought to decentralise economic decision making to improve efficiency. His measures resulted in the undermining of the one-party state. Gorbachev declined to intervene militarily when various Eastern Bloc countries abandoned governance in 1989–90. Internally, growing nationalist sentiment threatened to break up the, leading hardliners in the to launch the unsuccessful  against Gorbachev. In the wake of this, the dissolved against Gorbachev's wishes and he resigned in December.