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What led to Gorbachev being chosen as a leader of the USSR?

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The ex-Soviet President Mikhael V. Gorbachev was a Komsomol and a member of the Communist Party. Over the course of Yury Andropov's 15-month tenure (1982–84) as general secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev became one of the Politburo's most... read more

After Andropov died and Konstantin Chernenko became general secretary in February 1984, Gorbachev became a likely successor to the latter. Chernenko died on March 10, 1985, and the following day, the Politburo elected Gorbachev as the general secretary of the CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union). read more

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Party's first leader to have been born after the Revolution. As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost ("openness"), perestroika ("restructuring"), demokratizatsiya ("democratization"), and uskoreniye ("acceleration" of economic development), which were launched at the 27th Congress of the CPSU in February 1986. read more

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