Schedule An Appointment Confirmation Id

March 11, 1985-Mikhail Gorbachev became Secretary of the CPSU



In office [March 11, 1985 - August 24, 1991]


A politician Soviet, now Russian. He was the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991, champion of reform processes related to the perestroika and glasnost ', and the protagonist in the chain of events that led to the dissolution of the USSR and the CPSU itself. He was married to Raisa Maximovna Gorbach.