The future head of the country of the Soviets was born on March 2, 1931 in the small village of Privolnoye, located in the Stavropol Territory. The young years of Gorbachev's life were spent in labor activity. At the age of thirteen, the boy began to help his father, a rural machine operator, at work. And at the age of sixteen, the young man received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor from the state for his high performance in threshing grain.
Start career
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 joins the Communist Party, with which all subsequent years of Gorbachev's life will be closely connected. After graduating from the university in 1955, the young man went on assignment 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, 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 city committee of the Komsomol in Stavropol, and then the young man became the first secretary of the Stavropol regional committee of the Komsomol. Years of Gorbachev's life spent 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, a little over thirty years old, Mikhail Gorbachev went to work directly in the party bodies. The years of his life are now inextricably linked with the party and the state. It was the epic era of Khrushchev's reforms. The party career of Mikhail Sergeevich began from the position of a party organizer in the Stavropol Territorial Production Agricultural Administration. In September 1966, he held the position of 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 Sergeevich has been a member of the Central Committee of the Party.
Moscow period
The successes of the regional manager do not go unnoticed by the capital's 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 Sergeevich Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. The years of life of an energetic figure in the subsequent period were very active: he became one of the most public people not only in the Soviet state, but throughout the 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 towards democratization and glasnost. However, such reforms led to widespread public criticism of the Soviet government, as well as its past performance. As early as 1988, non-party and non-state public organizations began to be created throughout the country. Previously hushed up inter-ethnic contradictions also came to light with the process of democratization. All this leads to well-known results, when the former republics, one by one, begin a “parade of sovereignties.”
After crash
Mikhail Sergeevich himself was the last head of the Soviet state until December 1991, when the Belovezhskaya Accords were signed in Belarus, marking the creation of the CIS and a new era in the interstate relations of the region. The subsequent years of Gorbachev's life still to a certain extent passed and pass in the sphere of political activity. It appears with some periodicity in the Russian politics of modern times. From 1992 to the present time, he has been the head of the International Foundation for Political and Socio-Economic Research. In 2000, he headed the Russian Social Democratic Party, and since 2001 - the SDPR, being in office until 2004.
