Agriculture Engineering

After a visit to Moscow (and Minsk) in 2007, I was fascinated by this country, its people, its history, how could it be different if you stay at the beautiful and historic Hotel Sovietsky? But a lot of understanding of modern Russia? No, that could help this biography those who want more experience. It is also in itself a change in perspective …

After a brief introduction of the index and the main structure of the book is formed sequentially. It begins with a logical question, where was he born?

1st Country and destiny.

The land in the title of this chapter is a symbol for change in many ways as we see by reading the biography.

The biography begins with a few rhetorical questions: “Why the fate of David against Goliath Stavropol totalitarian Why is this man who fitted so well into the Soviet system in the most dangerous internal enemy of the regime, even more dangerous than any other external enemies transformed and how it was to change his mind and improve, save or to destroy it ended?

These issues are not addressed in this first chapter. Some answers appear only in the epilogue at the end of the book.

In the earth and the fate that we read about the humble beginnings of Gorbachev, and especially on his (family) experience of collective agriculture, the State Farm. Mikhail was perhaps the average, common man, hard worker who knew the system than anyone else.

He went to study law in the city of Moscow, where he met his future wife, one of the most beautiful girl in the faculty.

A large part because of her, he develops a sense of the world outside the world of the province. And this city great, relative to the earth remains a matter of understanding the biography.

It is the era of Brezhnev (Khrushchev and recent proceedings before the rising star Andropov, then still head of the KGB) and a young man named Kulakov a member of the Political Buro for agriculture, Mikhail discovers his “pupils”. The missing link to this rule is the importance of the Stavropol region, which is preferred by many. A large part of his personality is at this stage that many others are of the friendly aspect of Gorbachev was impressed.

2nd The last round

“Patience and loyalty is what Gorbachev Andropov learned. They are also the key to understanding the biography and what happened in the Soviet Union. Patience is changing.” Do not forward events, Mikhail, is a paragraph in this chapter. It’s just before Secretary Mikhail. After Chernenko’s death and after the sudden death of former Kulakov. Gorbachev was selected by the Politburo for his loyalty and expressed … Background … because “there were no other candidates,” which had the consent of the people. (Interesting that even if a totalitarian state that such approval is important). In his speech focused on the openings “dynamic”, he concluded the show rituals of the time, but has a call for change in words such as acceleration of economic progress.

3rd A welder easy?

“We want change.” But what and how? It was the Reagan era, as the great communicator, where it became clear that he has found a real competitor in Gorbachev in the area.

Gorbachev had raised the expectations of the first change, but it became clear (to both the biography and, in fact) that there is no real plan. Otherwise known as the “500 day plan” shows that it must have done something, but the question was. What?

There is little focus on the economy in the biography, but the main problem was the inefficiency of agriculture and their main organization between the collective and state farms. “Energy and food supply was threatened.

It is also the time of the dry law, one of the errors in the priorities and management of Gorbachev.

Meanwhile, Gorbachev opened up his image, and Russian with the outside world.

4th Conversion … What?

“We are in a hurry.” The XXVII Congress of the CPSU was the amendment of the agenda and perestroika word is born “is looking for the answer in the context of socialism, can not be improved without”. The basic concept of perestroika was: more socialism and more democracy.

Andrei Grachov then writes that “only with the attention we right ideology dissonancy first play timid and dissent could. On Socialism” Gensec “promotion in the Soviet Union” developed “to” development “, which helped to improve it, and it more authentic (even today, a modern design).

Lenin was the hero of Gorbachev and the example of change. But the manner in which the subject to more and more within the Politburo. Which type of socialism, socialism, plural, to social justice “socialist market economy, etc. .. For Gorbachev, is a means to power, but he did not understand how to take control.