11 март 1985 г. - March: Mikhail Gorbachev chosen as CPSU general secretary

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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, is a Russian and former Soviet politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was one of the respected country’s head of state from 1988 until 199, He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and as President of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991). As General Secretary, Gorbachev evolved from a Communist reformer to a socialist of the social democratic type. The most important programmatic documents of the CPSU in 1990–1991, on which Gorbachev had the predominant influence, were essentially social democratic. From 1988, Gorbachev was advocating fundamental change of the Soviet system, although there were zig-zags in his public pronouncements under the pressure of events. Ill-understood both at home and abroad, Gorbachev's social democratic ideas were ‘outflanked’ by the market fundamentalism and political impatience of his radical opponents and frustrated by the implacable enmity of conservative defenders of the vanishing Communist party-state.