Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of ... As a teenager, Gorbachev joined the youth wing of the Communist Party, which was the lone political party of the Soviet Union.

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“And so, Mikhail Sergeyevich ... 1,500 rubles a month. We know a bit of Gorbachev’s youth. He was born in a village in the Stavropol region and was baptized. His grandparents hid their ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2 ... the Communist Party youth organization. While his father was at the front during World War II, young Mr. Gorbachev worked as a combine ...

“Mikhail Gorbachev was a man of remarkable vision ... where he took a job at the regional office of Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. The Gorbachevs’ only child, Irina, was ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union ... Mr. Gorbachev decided on a career with the Komsomol, the party’s youth division, as deputy head of the “agitation and propaganda ...

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union ... He was limited by his imagination, not the beliefs and institutions of his youth, which had crumbled quickly. But, even as Russia ...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91 ... “Gorbachev was a loser who, despite his youth, was a representative of the old generation,” said Sergei Grigoryants, a leading ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at the age ... rose as quickly as he did stemmed directly from his relative youth. He provided the face of a new generation and a new way of thinking.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, the former general secretary of ... of special legal privileges granted to members of the communist youth organization, the Komsomol, to open businesses and sell Soviet assets ...