Years of Gorbachev's life: biography of the head

The future head of the Soviet Union was born on March 2, 1931 in a small village of Privolnoye, located in the Stavropol Territory. The young years of Gorbachev's life were spent working. At thirteen years the boy began to help his father, a rural mechanic, at work. And at the age of sixteen, the young man received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor from the state for the high rates of grain threshing .

Early career

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

Party takeoff

In 1962, just over thirty years old, Mikhail Gorbachev passed directly to the party bodies. The years of his life are now inextricably linked with the party and the state. This was the epic epoch of the Khrushchev reforms. The party career of Mikhail Sergeyevich began from the party organizer's position in the Stavropol Territorial Agricultural Production Administration. In September 1966, he was the first secretary of the local city party committee, and already in April 1970, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU in Stavropol. Since 1971, Mikhail Sergeyevich is a member of the Central Committee of the Party.

Moscow period

The success of the regional manager does not go unheeded by the Moscow leadership. In 1978, an active official became secretary of the Central Committee on 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 the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. 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 bold reforms were approved at subsequent plenums of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1986 and 1987. Counting on the support of the broad masses, Gorbachev announced a course toward democratization and glasnost. However, such reforms led to widespread public criticism of the Soviet government, as well as its past activities. Already since 1988 non-party and non-governmental public organizations are starting to be established throughout the country. The supra-ethnic contradictions that had been hushed up earlier were also revealed with the process of democratization. All this leads to well-known results, when the former republics begin "a parade of sovereignties" one by one.

After the collapse

Mikhail Sergeyevich himself was the last head of the Soviet state until December 1991, when Belovezhsky agreements were signed in Belarus , which marked the creation of the CIS and a new era in interstate relations of the region. The subsequent years of Gorbachev's life have to some extent passed and are taking place in the sphere of political activity. He appears with some periodicity in Russian politics of modern times. From 1992 to the present time he is the head of the International Fund for Political and Social and Economic Research. In 2000, he headed the ROSSDP, and since 2001 - the SDPR, being in office until 2004.