At the age of 55, Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko and will be the last Communist leader of the USSR. He resigned in December 1991 after the collapse of the communist bloc.
March, 11 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR
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