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Although Gorbachev was mourned in the Western world, reactions to his death within Russia were less positive. Reporting on Gorbachev's death, Russian media had little to say regarding his death; [16] Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda stated that Gorbachev had "changed the world too irreversibly for his ideological opponents". [17]
Shortly after Chernenko's death, on 11 March 1985, , the Politburo unanimously elected Gorbachev as his successor. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] He thus became the eighth leader of the Soviet Union. [ 35 ] Few in the government imagined that he would be as radical a reformer as he proved. [ 36 ]
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Gorbachev's father had joined the Red Army and fought on the frontlines; he was wrongly declared dead during the conflict and fought in the Battle of Kursk before returning to his family, injured. [20] After Germany was defeated, Gorbachev's parents had their second son, Aleksandr, in 1947; he and Mikhail would be their only children. [11]
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The following day Yeltsin moved into Gorbachev's former office, [166] though the Russian authorities had taken over the suite two days earlier. The Soviet Armed Forces were placed under the command of the Commonwealth of Independent States , but were eventually subsumed by the newly independent republics, with the bulk becoming the Armed Forces ...
However, the first and only Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, was elected by the democratically elected Congress of People's Deputies. [9] In connection with the dissolution of the Soviet Union national elections for the office of President never took place. To be elected to the office a person must have been a Soviet citizen and older than ...
(birth–death) Term of office Premier; Took office Left office Time in office 1 Chairman of the Cheka (1917–1922) Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 20 December 1917 7 July 1918 199 days Vladimir Lenin (1917–1924) 2 Yakov Peters (1886–1938) 7 July 1918 22 August 1918 46 days 1: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 22 August 1918 6 February 1922