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    Gorbachev-The Rise and Fall of a Hero
    Gorbachev-The Rise and Fall of a Hero
    Gorbachev-The Rise and Fall of a Hero
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    Gorbachev-The Rise and Fall of a Hero

    By I D Oppenhiem

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    From the author of Gulf-Diary of the Microchip War.

    This concise history, also re-edited by the author of the original 1991 paperback, whilst not intended as a biography, charts the meteoric rise of Mikhail Gorbachev through the ranks of the Communist Party but primarily covers events during the 1991 August coup that shook the world, and the follow on effects this had on the USSR.

    The title reference ‘fall of a hero’ refers in essence to the change of opinion within Soviet society of the man who initiated Perestroika.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStrawberry Hightower Media
    Release dateMay 8, 2013
    ISBN9781497768406
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      Gorbachev-The Rise and Fall of a Hero - I D Oppenhiem

      Gorbachev

      The Rise and Fall

      of a Hero

      ––––––––

      This book charts the meteoric rise of Mikhail Gorbachev through the ranks of the Communist Party and covers events during the 1991 August coup that shook the world, and the follow on effects this had on the USSR.

      A brief history of the Communist Party is included from the 1917 Revolution.

      The title reference ‘fall of a hero’ refers in essence to the change of opinion within Soviet society of the man who initiated Perestroika.

      GORBACHEV

      THE RISE AND FALL OF A HERO

      by

      I D Oppenhiem

      Edited by Ian Davies

      First Published 1991

      Copyright © 1991.

      This electronic edition Copyright © 2011.

      GORBACHEV

      THE RISE AND FALL OF A HERO

      The son of a peasant farmer, Mikhail Gorbachev left Moscow University to take a job in Stavropol where he was born, taking with him a lawyers degree, to work at the regional prosecutors office. He survived only ten days, and decided that he preferred the work he had done earlier in the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) both in school and at university, and was offered a job in the regional Komsomol organization, as deputy head of the department of agitation and propaganda. He worked here until 1962, and then switched to Communist Party work.

      In the sixties, he took a further degree at the Stavropol Agricultural Institute, to extend his knowledge of economics. This would prove to be an astute decision, as he was later, under the Party leadership of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov in 1983, to be given full responsibility for the economy.

      As Party organizer, his responsibilities were the administration of agricultural production on both collective and State farms in the Stavropol region. He was later to become First Secretary of the Stavropol city committee of the Party, and finally gained the position of First Secretary of the Stavropol regional committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), being elected to this position in April 1970 at just 39 years old. In 1978 he was transferred to work in Moscow, when the average age of Politburo members was around 67, and on November 27 1978, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow.

      In 1984, his wife Raisa, travelled to Britain with him, at the head of a parliamentary delegation.

      For a wife to be taken along was not usual, but permission was granted by the then President Konstantin Chernenko.

      With wide appraisal from newspaper media around the world, he had become noticed at home.

      He had married Raisa in 1953 when they were both still students, Raisa studying philosophy, and he had worked as a combine driver harvesting wheat to pay for his wedding that autumn.

      ––––––––

      Red Square - Moscow

      The recent history to this point:

      In November 1982, Leonid Ilyrich Brezhnev died. He was replaced by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov who was soon to die as he was already seriously ill.

      Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was then to take control. After just a short term in office, on March 10th 1985 Chernenko also died, being three deaths in three years, and this last death prompted a hastily arranged meeting of the Politburo.

      At an emergency meeting the following day, Mikhail was elected General Secretary of the Party’s Central Committee. He had become the youngest man to take

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