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russian food famine lasted for two years
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makhail gorbachev graduated from moscow state university with a degree in law
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Gorbachev attended the important twenty-second Party Congress in October 1961, where Nikita Khrushchev announced a plan to surpass the U.S. in per capita production within twenty years.
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He was promoted to Head of the Department of Party Organs in the Stavropol Agricultural Kraikom in 1963
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While at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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he qualified as an agricultural economist via a correspondence masters degree at the Stavropol Institute of Agriculture
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In 1970, he was appointed First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom, a body of the CPSU, becoming one of the youngest provincial party chiefs in the nation.
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He was soon made a member of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1971
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he was made a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs.
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He was subsequently appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture in 1978, replacing Fyodor Kulakov,
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Gorbachev was promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the country, and received full membership in 1980.