Gorbachev, Mikhail

*

1931

Beruf
Soviet politician, lawyer

Überblick

	1952 enters the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
	1966-1968 Party chief of Savropol
	1970-1978 First Secretary of the Savropol district
	1971 full member of the Central Committee
	1978 Central Secretary and Manager for Agriculture in the Central Committee of the CPSU
	1980 Member of the Politburo
	1985-1991 General Secretary of the CPSU
	terminates the Soviet hegemonic great power policy; rapprochement with the US
	1987 signs the agreement to destroy nuclear intermediate range missiles
	1988/89 withdraws Soviet troops from Afghanistan
	1990 concurs in the reunification of Germany
	resigns as President with the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991