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born in russia
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mikhail gorbachovs life, from birth to now
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russian food famine
russian food famine lasted for two years -
2nd year of the russian food famine
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graduated college
makhail gorbachev graduated from moscow state university with a degree in law -
congress party act
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. -
leader
He was promoted to Head of the Department of Party Organs in the Stavropol Agricultural Kraikom in 1963 -
communist party
While at the university, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
agricultureist
he qualified as an agricultural economist via a correspondence masters degree at the Stavropol Institute of Agriculture -
youngest leader
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. -
member of communist party central committee
He was soon made a member of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1971 -
put in to the supreme court
he was made a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Standing Commission on Youth Affairs. -
kulkov died and gorbachov takes his spot
He was subsequently appointed to the Central Committee's Secretariat for Agriculture in 1978, replacing Fyodor Kulakov, -
promted
Gorbachev was promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the country, and received full membership in 1980.