· He was the second-to-last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and the last head of state of the U.S.S.R., serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991.
· He installed a political reform initiative known as "Perestroika" which led to the eventual collapse of the control held by the Communist Party.
· In 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community."
Which Soviet leader is being described by these statements?
A) Boris Yeltsin
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev