For 10 points, identify this leader who left office shortly before the breakup of the USSR, and was instantly recognizable due to the large birthmark on his head.
This man oversaw the creation of a new, freely elected parliament called the Congress of People's Deputies, which discussed his policies, including the liberalization of markets known as perestroika (PEH-res-TROY-kuh). This successor of Konstantin Chernenko also relaxed controls on free speech in glasnost and survived a 1991 coup by Communist hard-liners. For 10 points, identify this leader who left office shortly before the breakup of the USSR, and was instantly recognizable due to the large birthmark on his head.
This man oversaw the creation of a new, freely elected parliament called the Congress of People's Deputies, which discussed his policies, including the liberalization of markets known as perestroika (PEH-res-TROY-kuh).
Mikhail Sergeyevich {Gorbachev}