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Mikhail Gorbachev
Birth at
2 March 1931
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Mikhail Gorbachev was born in the village of Privolnoye of the Stavropol Territory on March 2, 1931 in a family of peasants. He started working at the age of 13 as a schoolboy. In 1948, Mikhail was drafted into the army, where he served as warehouse chief. After school, Gorbachev became a student of Lomonosov Moscow State University. After graduation, he began working in the prosecutor’s office. He became a member of the CPSU in 1952, in 1955 Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed first secretary of the
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Mikhail Gorbachev was born in the village of Privolnoye of the Stavropol Territory on March 2, 1931 in a family of peasants. He started working at the age of 13 as a schoolboy. In 1948, Mikhail was drafted into the army, where he served as warehouse chief. After school, Gorbachev became a student of Lomonosov Moscow State University. After graduation, he began working in the prosecutor’s office. He became a member of the CPSU in 1952, in 1955 Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed first secretary of the Stavropol krapom, and by 1966 he rose to first secretary of the city committee of the party.
In 1978, Mikhail Gorbachev became secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1980 he joined the Politburo. Five years later, Gorbachev became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. Mikhail Sergeyevich headed the leadership of the USSR in 1990. He was the first and last president of the USSR. His work in this post was accompanied by various reforms in the political and economic life of Russians. The name of Mikhail Sergeyevich in the lives of our compatriots is associated with the end of the Cold War, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989, the policy of glasnost, freedom of the press and speech in the USSR, a large-scale attempt to completely reform the country (all known “perestroika”), the collapse of the USSR and the return of socialist countries to capitalism and a market economy.
After a coup in 1991, Gorbachev lost power, but was able to return to the leadership of the country and held his post until the complete collapse of the USSR in December. In 2000, Mikhail Sergeevich became the head of the ROSDP, and since 2001 became the leader of the party SDPR. His political views are outlined in the famous books “Understanding Perestroika, Why It Matters Now”, “Breakthrough to Freedom”. On Perestroika Twenty Years Later, The Edges of Globalization. Difficult issues of modern development, etc. In 1990, Mikhail Sergeyevich was awarded the Nobel Prize for the peace process in the international community.
Gorbachev’s wife Raisa Maksimovna made a significant contribution to the activities of her husband, always and in everything supported him. In 1999, she died of leukemia. Gorbachev dedicated a book to her "Raisa: In memory of Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva."