Gorbachev mikhail biography
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Born to Russian peasants in , Mikhail Gorbachev grew up under Stalin’s regime. At the age of 15, he joined the Komsomol, or “Youth Communist League,” and drove a combine harvester at a state-run farm in his hometown. Local party officials recognized his promise and sent him to law school at Moscow State University, where he became an active Communist Party member.
Journeys abroad gradually made Gorbachev critical of the inefficient Soviet system, further strained when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in , and he quickly ascended the ladder of power. He became the youngest full member of the Politburo, then the highest executive committee in the Soviet Union. In , after two general secretaries of the Politburo died within a year of each other, the Party was looking for fresh, new leadership.
On March 11, , the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he set about installing bold reforms. Domestically, he pushed t
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Who Was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Mikhail Gorbachev became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress in He was elected general secretary in He became the first president of the Soviet Union in and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. He resigned in and founded the Gorbachev Foundation. He remained active in social and political causes throughout the remainder of his life.
Early Life
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, , to a Russian-Ukrainian family in the village of Privolnoye, in the Krasnogvardeisky District near the Stavropol Territory of southern Russia.
Gorbachev’s parents were peasants. His father, Sergei, operated a combine harvester for a living. Sergei was drafted into the Russian Army when the Nazis invaded the USSR in Three years later, he was wounded in action and returned home to resume operating farm machinery. Sergei passed on his experience to his young son, Mikhail. Mikhail Gorbachev was a quick learner and showed a
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Leader of the Soviet Union from to
"Gorbachev" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Gorbachev (surname).
Mikhail Gorbachev | |||||
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Gorbachev in | |||||
| In office 11 March &#;– 24 August [a] | |||||
| Premier | |||||
| Deputy | Vladimir Ivashko | ||||
| Preceded by | Konstantin Chernenko | ||||
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Ivashko (acting) | ||||
| In office 15 March &#;– 25 December [b] | |||||
| Vice President | Gennady Yanayev[c] | ||||
| Preceded by | Himself as Chairman of the Supreme&#;Soviet | ||||
| Succeeded by | Office abolished[d] | ||||
| In office 25 May &#;– 15 March | |||||
| Deputy | Anatoly Lukyanov | ||||
| Preceded by | Himself as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme&#;Soviet | ||||
| Succeeded by | Anatoly Lukyanov | ||||
| In office 1 October &#;– 25 May | |||||
| Preceded by | Andrei Gromyko | ||||
| Succeeded by | Himself as Chairman of the Supreme&#;Soviet | ||||
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