March 11th, 1985
March 11th, 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev, then a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, casting his vote in the 1985 election
for Supreme Soviet of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and local
Councils of People's Deputies on February 24, 1985. (ITAR-TASS/ Valentin Kuzmin)