Early Politics
After Gorbachev graduated from the University of Moscow, he returned to Stavropol to work as a communist official of the district. He was sent back to Moscow about 30 years later to join the Agricultural Central Committee. He soon became noticed as a strong politician with a good mind for communism. As Dusko Doder said in his book, Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin, "He began to appear at the edges of official leadership lineups.''
He also had many helpful attributes as a politician. These characteristics included having an uncanny ability to reason, being able to improvise when things didn't go as planned, and having a pleasant tone of voice that was confident without being condescending. Although he possessed these skills, in the beginning of his career his speeches were known to be long and boring. He would fix this fault later in his life. |