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...account, attended Moscow State University Law School with Gorbachev. In a speech at Harvard University last September, Neznansky, co-author of the thriller Red Square, recalled that one night in 1950, he, Gorbachev and a third man who was active in the Young Communist League, or Komsomol, raised many glasses of beer and vodka together. Gorbachev stayed sober, but the party activist slipped into a stupor. The next day, claimed Neznansky, Gorbachev denounced his friend's drinking before the Komsomol. As a result, said Neznansky, "Gorbachev promptly became the new Komsomol organizer, and that's when his path...
...silver-haired, well-tailored Shevardnadze (pronounced Shevard-nad-zeh) got most of his early party training in the 1950s when he moved through the ranks of Komsomol, the Young Communist League. He almost certainly forged close personal ties with Gorbachev, who also served as a Komsomol leader in Stavropol, a district adjoining Georgia. Shevardnadze studied history, but his true specialty has long been law-and-order. In 1965 he was named Georgian minister for maintenance of public order, a euphemism for head of the local police. That has always been a challenging job in Georgia, the transcaucasian republic where residents...
Chernenko was born on Sept. 24, 1911, to a family of Russian peasants in the central Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes. In his youth he signed up with the Komsomol, or Young Communist League, the usual first step for people who want to become members of the Communist Party. In 1931 he joined the party, and a decade later became a local secretary. Chernenko is one of the few Soviet leaders of his generation who do not seem to have fought in World War II. He spent most of the war years in Moscow attending the Higher Party School...
...most Pioneers join Komsomol, the League of Communist Youth. Forty-two million Soviets, 60% of those between the ages of 15 and 29, participate in its lectures, sporting events and work projects. Joining Komsomol does not ensure a better education or job, but failure to belong can hinder one's career...
...revolution against Tsar Nicholas II's rule. Brezhnev was ten years old at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. He attended a grammar school that was subsidized by his father's steel plant, worked for a time as a manual laborer and in 1923 joined the Komsomol, the Communist youth organization. After vocational school, one of his first jobs was to help supervise the distribution of land in the Urals that had been seized from peasants as part of Stalin's brutal collectivization program. Brezhnev became a member of the Communist Party in 1931 and subsequently...