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Mikhail Gorbachev was born on March 2nd, 1931 in Stavropol, Russia Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His family consisted of migrants from Voronezh Region and Chernigov Province of Ukraine. His father, Sergei, operated a combine harvester for a living, and was a World War II veteran. His mother, Maria, worked on a collective farm her whole life. As a child growing up in a native village Privolnoye, Mikhail, his two sisters, his parents, and close relatives all faced the Soviet famine from 1932-1933. During that famine, half of the population of his village starved to death counting his two sisters and his uncle. Mikhail was only 2-3 years of age when this tragic famine struck him and his family. Mikhail mostly lived with his grandparents Pantelei and Vasilisa, and in 1937, Pantelei was arrested and sent to exile in Siberia for 14 months for supporting Leon Trotsky. In his later years, as a young adult, Mikhail operated combine harvesters on shared farms. During his college years, he met his future wife, Raisa Titarenko, at his college Moscow State University. At the age of 22, on September 1953 they married, and moved to Stavropol during Mikhail’s graduation. Mikhail and Raisa welcomed their daughter, Irina Mikhailovna Virganskaya in 1957. Not having any more children, Raisa died at the age of 42 from leukemia. Gorbachev has two granddaughters and one great granddaughter.

Mikhail excelled greatly in his academics during his school years. It started as a young child when he developed a deep desire for knowledge. In school his hobby was drama, which went on a show tour to the villages within the region. This ambitious group of young performers earned money from tickets to their performances and with the money they bought 35 ...

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...-Soviet era, he expressed criticism at the reforms carried out by Russian president Boris Yeltsin. He tried and failed to run for presidency again in 1996, but soon after he established the Social Democratic Party of Russia, a union between several Russian social democratic parties. In May 2004, Gorbachev resigned as a party leader. After Gorbachev’s resignation, he appeared in numerous media channels. In 2007, Gorbachev founded a new political party called the Union of Social Democrats. In 1997, Gorbachev appeared with his granddaughter Anastasia in an internationally screened television commercial for Pizza Hut. The money for the ad went to Gorbachev’s non-profit Gorbachev foundation. Even though Gorbachev was out of office he still got lot’s of attention for all of the historical, major accomplishments in his lifetime, and is still living today in Moscow, Russia.

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