Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician who left a significant mark on the history of our state. We can safely say that it was he who radically changed her. Now someone condemns him, someone believes that it could not have been otherwise, but most of his contemporaries have rather scant information about his biography, career path and personal life.
The biography, career and personal life of Mikhail Gorbachev were deprived of that smoothness and "knurling" that is characteristic of many modern politicians. His path to the presidency was long and difficult. No matter what the results of his activities were, this man earned respect. Many political analysts believe that Mikhail Gorbachev sincerely believed that the changes he initiated would benefit the Russian Federation, and if he had worthy like-minded people and proper experience, all his plans would be fruitful.
Biography of Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev was born in early March 1931. The parents of the future first and only president of the USSR were ordinary peasants of the Stavropol Territory. The boy's childhood was far from joyful, full of hardships associated with wartime - hunger, occupation, post-war devastation.
Already in the 7th grade, Mikhail began his career - he worked in his own collective farm, first as a laborer at a tractor fleet service station, then as an assistant to a combine operator. For his labor services, young Mikhail received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1949.
The young man graduated from school with "good" and "excellent", which allowed him to easily enter the law faculty of Moscow State University. The leadership inclinations of the young Stavropol citizen were noted, and he headed the Komsomol organization of the university, and in 1952 he received a ticket as a member of the CPSU party.
Career of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet years
After graduating from Moscow State University, Mikhail Gorbachev returned to his homeland - in the Stavropol Territory. There he headed the city committee of the Komsomol. Mikhail Sergeevich refused the post in the Stavropol Prosecutor's Office, because at that time he already knew exactly in which direction he wanted to develop, and it was precisely politics.
Gorbachev proved his promise as a politician back in 1962, during the reign of Khrushchev, when he held the post of party organizer of the Stavropol agricultural administration. For the merits in this position in 1974, he was recommended as a member of the government of the USSR, and received the position of head of the commission on youth problems. In 1978 he moved to Moscow, where he became the secretary of the Central Committee of the party. This was followed by such successful career steps:
- 1980 - Gorbachev became a member of the Politburo of the party,
- 1984 - reading a report on alleged changes in party tactics, which will later be called the "prelude" to perestroika,
- 1985 - Election as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR.
And then a test of strength followed - both for Gorbachev and for the state as a whole. Mikhail Sergeevich had to make fateful decisions, literally destroy the established principles of governing the state and life in it.
Mikhail Gorbachev and perestroika
Gorbachev became a global reformer for Russia. He sincerely believed that universal democratization would destroy stagnation and lead to positive changes, but the country was not ready to perceive these steps as a gift, moreover, many accepted them as a guide to criminal actions.
Another wrong decision was that the politician started reforms without any clear plan of action. Modern political scientists believe that it was possible to enter perestroika only after all possible risks were calculated, several solutions were developed at once for different development of events. Gorbachev did not have them, and it was this that led to the complete failure of perestroika and literally to devastation in the 90s of the last century.
The people and production workers, accustomed to working within strict limits, and suddenly received complete freedom, did not know what to do with it. Plants, factories stopped, workers and collective farmers did not receive payment for their labor, plundering of state property began. This was the result of an undeveloped perestroika, within the framework of which liberalization took place, censorship was weakened, everything changed!
Family and personal life of Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeevich is monogamous in everything, both in his career and in his personal life. His only wife was a unique woman - Raisa Maksimovna, educated, stylish, restrained, a man of extraordinary kindness and patience.
Mikhail and Raisa met when they were students. Gorbachev himself said that he decided to marry after the first meeting. The marriage took place in 1953, and the future husband earned himself for the wedding - he worked part-time in one of the collective farms of Stavropol.
In the marriage of the Gorbachevs, only one child was born - daughter Irina Mikhailovna, who, in turn, gave her parents two grandchildren.
In 1999, Mikhail Sergeevich was widowed - his beloved and only wife died. The cause of death was leukemia. The loss has become irreparable, the politician has retired and is reluctant to give interviews.
Mikhail Gorbachev now
After the death of his wife, Mikhail Sergeevich focused on writing - he writes memoirs, scientific works on political science. He has no significant property. The press wrote that Gorbachev put up real estate in Germany for auction, planning to keep a Moscow apartment for himself, and a dacha in the Moscow region for his daughters and grandchildren.
In 2015, the media reported that Mikhail Sergeevich was seriously ill, he had a serious stage of development of diabetes mellitus. He himself does not confirm or deny the disease, he simply refuses to be interviewed, and this is his right.
