He was born into a Russian-Ukrainian peasant family

Gorbachev was born in the impoverished peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian descent in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai. Before joining the Communist Party, which at the time ruled the Soviet Union as a one-party state in accordance with the dominant interpretation of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, Joseph Stalin worked as a combine harvester operator on a collective farm when he was younger. He married Raisa Titarenko, a fellow student at Moscow State University, in 1953, and graduated from law school in 1955. He relocated to Stavropol and began working for the Komsomol youth group. After Stalin's death, he firmly supported Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization efforts.1970 saw his appointment as the Stavropol Regional Committee's First Party Secretary, where he oversaw the building of the Great Stavropol Canal.

He moved back to Moscow in 1978 to take up the position of Secretary of the party's Central Committee. In 1979, he joined the Politburo, which governs the party. Following the brief administrations of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, which ended three years after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Politburo elected Gorbachev as General Secretary, the de facto leader of the government, in 1985. In the Stavropol Krai settlement of Privolnoye, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 3rd, 1931. The kid, originally called Viktor, was privately baptized "Mikhail" by Gorbachev's Ukrainian mother, Maria Panteleyevna, an ardent Orthodox Christian. His parents had one other son after World War Two, Aleksandr.