In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union. The committee did this for his leading role in the peace process which represented and constituted an important part of the international community.

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, and the Cold War between East and West was brought to a halt. In 1990, the Nobel Committee gave President Gorbachev the main credit for this by awarding him the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. It was said and believed that Gorbachev brought the Cold War to a peaceful end.

Gorbachev sought détente with the USA so as to be able to transfer funding from defense to civil society. He declared that he would not support Communist regimes in other countries if their peoples were opposed to them. He thus started a chain reaction which led to the fall of communism in Europe.