Soviet Politics

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Gorbachev Mikhael Sergeyevich was born in 1931 in a small village in the Stavropol region of Russia . His family lived a hard live during the time of Stalin . His family was forced into collective labour in the farms However , he was able to survive this live because his grand father was on the Stalin side as he was involved in organization of a collective farm . Nazi invasion came when Gorbachev was only eleven years of

age His grand father was involved in the fight and after five years Gorbachev went to Moscow and found out that everything was on ruin Seeing the USSR in this kind of situation could have enhanced his desires to make the USSR prosper . He went to Moscow state university where he took law although his interest was on politics . He joined the communist party in 1952 and experienced rise in the regional party . He was the first secretary of the Stavropol territory a position he attained in 1970 (Cranston Cranston pg15-17

He was termed as an incorruptible bureaucrat due to his openness to the journalists and farmers . In 1978 he became a member of the hierarchy at that time was number twenty in the ranking among all the leaders in the Soviet . After the death of Brezhnev in 1982 , Gorbachev was appointed as second in command to Yuri Andropov who succeeded Brezhnev . Yuri died in 1985 and Gorbachev became the...