History of Mikhail Gorbachev: Life, achievements, death of Gorbachev

By Mark A. Rumley

The final leader of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, a politician from Russia and the Soviet Union who lived from 2 March 1931 to 30 August 2022. He presided over the Supreme Soviet's Presidium from 1988 to 1989, the Supreme Soviet itself from 1989 to 1990, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's General Secretary from 1985 to 1991, and finally the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1990 until its breakup in 1991. Gorbachev originally supported Marxism-Leninism, but by the early 1990s, he began to support social democracy.

Gorbachev was born in an impoverished peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian descent in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai. Before joining the Communist Party, which at the time ruled the Soviet Union as a one-party state in accordance with the prevailing interpretation of Marxist-Leninist doctrine, Joseph Stalin worked as a combine harvester operator in his youth on a collective farm while living under Joseph Stalin's rule. He was a student at Moscow State University when he married Raisa Titarenko in 1953 and graduated from law school in 1955.

He relocated to Stavropol and began working for the Komsomol youth group. After Stalin's death, he firmly supported Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization efforts. 1970 saw his appointment as the Stavropol Regional Committee's First Party Secretary, where he supervised the building of the Great Stavropol Canal. He moved back to Moscow in 1978 to take up the position of Secretary of the party's Central Committee. In 1979, he joined the Politburo, which governs the party. Following the short administrations of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko and three years after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Politburo chose Gorbachev to serve as General Secretary and de facto leader in 1985.

Gorbachev was dedicated to maintaining the Soviet Union and its socialist goals, but he also saw the need for considerable change, notably in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. He left the Soviet-Afghan War and began holding meetings with Ronald Reagan to reduce nuclear weapons and put an end to the Cold War.

Mark A. Milley a U.S journalist discusses the full account of Mikhail Gorbachev in his book. All his achievements, position and honors are recorded in this book

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BCWFMK76
• ISBN13: 9798849492322
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"