Years of life of Gorbachev: biography of the head

The future head of the country of Soviets was born on March 2, 1931 in the small village of Privolnoye, located in the Stavropol Territory. Young years of Gorbachev’s life passed in labor activity. At thirteen, the boy began to help his father, a rural machine operator, in his work. And at the age of sixteen, the young man received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor from the state for high performance in threshing grain.

Career start

After graduating from high school in 1950 and receiving a silver medal, Mikhail Gorbachev enters the Faculty of Law at Lomonosov Moscow University. Two years later, he enters the Communist Party, with which all subsequent years of Gorbachev’s life will be closely connected. After graduating from university in 1955, the young man went to the city of Stavropol for distribution to the local prosecutor's office. Here he takes an active part in the activities of the Komsomol organization, works as deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the local Komsomol committee. Later, he was promoted to the first secretary of the city committee of the Komsomol in Stavropol, and then the young man became the first secretary of the Stavropol Territory of the Komsomol. Gorbachev's years of life spent in Stavropol (1955-1962) gave the future head of state invaluable experience and became an excellent launching pad for further success.

Party take-off

In 1962, a little over thirty years old, Mikhail Gorbachev transferred to work directly in the party organs. The years of his life are now inextricably linked with the party and the state. It was an epic era of Khrushchev's reforms. The party career of Mikhail Sergeyevich began with the place of party organizer in the Stavropol Territorial Production Agricultural Administration. In September 1966, he held the post of first secretary of the local city party committee, and in April 1970, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first secretary of the CPSU regional committee in Stavropol. Since 1971, Mikhail Sergeyevich has been a member of the Party Central Committee.

Moscow period

The success of the regional manager does not go unnoticed by the metropolitan leadership. In 1978, an active official became the Secretary of the Central Committee for the agro-industrial complex of the USSR, and two years later - a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

At the helm of the state

Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. The years of life of an energetic figure in the following period were very active: he became one of the most public people not only of the Soviet state, but of the whole world. The new head of state had a fairly fresh vision of the country's further development. Already in May 1985, he announced

the need to finally overcome the "stagnation" and accelerate the economic and social development of the USSR. Initiatives and courageous reforms were approved at subsequent plenary sessions of the CPSU Central Committee in 1986 and 1987. Counting on the support of the masses, Gorbachev declared a course towards democratization and publicity. However, such reforms have led to widespread public criticism of the Soviet government, as well as its past activities. Since 1988, non-partisan and non-governmental public organizations have begun to be created throughout the country. The previously hushed up interethnic contradictions were also revealed with the process of democratization. All this leads to well-known results when the former republics, one by one, begin a “parade of sovereignty”.