Most residents of the former Soviet Union associate the collapse of the union state with the personality of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. This person is respected and hated at the same time. If Mikhail Sergeevich was able to take away the Soviet Union, then hard work and dedication were always with him. The winner of the Nobel Prize and, surprisingly, the Grammy Award, left politics more than 10 years ago. Currently, presumably, he lives in a dacha in the suburbs.
Hard childhood
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is a once simple rural guy who was born on March 2, 1931. He comes from the village of Privolnoye (in the Stavropol Territory). It is worth noting that Mikhail was not the only child in the family. When the boy was 16 years old, he had a brother Sasha.
For many, childhood is the happiest period in their lives. But not for Mikhail Sergeevich. It is known that his family could not boast of material well-being, his parents were only peasants. Working on the land took almost all of the time. Therefore, the boy's childhood was spent in poverty. Moreover, his native village was occupied by fascist troops for 5 months, and Mikhail's father for some time was mistakenly considered dead. Nevertheless, Sergei Andreevich always served as a kind of beacon in the life of his son, guiding and supporting him in difficult times.
From the age of 13, Misha had to work both on the collective farm and in the MTS. At the same time, he combined physical and mental work - studying at school also required a lot of time and effort. However, the result was not long in coming.
Student years and civil service
At the age of 19, on a recommendation from school, the young man became a candidate for membership in the Communist Party. In addition, after graduating from school, he was awarded a silver medal. All this allowed him to enroll in students of the law faculty of Moscow State University without a single exam. So, from a simple villager, having enlisted parental support, he turned, one might say, into a representative of high society.
Two years later, the Communist Party officially accepts Mikhail into its ranks. After university with a higher education in his pocket, he is assigned to the regional prosecutor's office in the city of Stavropol. However, 10 days later, Mikhail Sergeevich becomes deputy head of the agitation and propaganda department of the Stavropol Regional Committee of the Komsomol. Thus, Mikhail Gorbachev was rapidly going up the steps of the career ladder. And already in 1961 he became the first secretary of the regional committee of the same Komsomol. The desire to delve into science had to be abandoned. Ahead of him was a great and significant work in the political arena.
In his political biography, there was a place for many roles and positions. Beginning in 1962, he managed to work in the Stavropol Territorial Committee and City Committee, in the Commissions of the Council of the Union for Nature Conservation and Youth Affairs.
In 1974, for 15 long years, he became one of the deputies of the Council of the Union of the USSR Armed Forces, representing the Stavropol Territory /
In December 1978, Mikhail Gorbachev had to move with his family to Moscow, because there, thanks to Brezhnev, he was promoted to Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
Already 7 years later, the career ladder leads him to the chair of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (and, in many respects, thanks to the famous Andrei Gromyko).
In 1988, Gorbachev became Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces. It would seem that here he is the crown of his career, but in 1990 Mikhail Sergeevich is the president of the USSR. The first and last in the history of this state. Only the stars are higher.
And then everything is like a daze: the coup in August 1991, resignation from the post of General Secretary, Gorbachev's withdrawal from the CPSU, the Belovezhskaya Agreement in December of the same year. And, as a consequence of all this, the liquidation of the Soviet Union and the formation of the CIS.
After those events, Gorbachev often criticized Yeltsin's policies, however, in fact, he was far from being in a winning position. In 1996 he took part in the presidential elections in Russia as a candidate. However, he could not get even one percent of the votes.
Personal life
Mikhail met his love as a university student. Then he met a student Raisa Titarenko, who studied at the Faculty of Philosophy. Soon, even before graduation, they managed to become husband and wife. The wedding was very modest. It happened in 1953 only in the cafeteria of one of the student dormitories. Subsequently, the newlyweds had a daughter, Irina.
In 1999, Raisa Gorbacheva died of leukemia. She was 67 years old.
