Egor Kuzmich Ligachev is a Soviet politician. Initially an ally of Mikhail Gorbachev, Ligachev by 1989 became one of his main critics.
Childhood
Egor Kuzmich Ligachev was born on November 29, 1920 in a village called Dubinkino near Novosibirsk. From 1938 to 1943 he studied at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Ordzhonikidze and received a technical education. Ligachev joined the CPSU at the age of 24 in 1944, and then studied at the Higher Party School in 1951.
Political career
Ligachev began his career as the first secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee in Novosibirsk, then became deputy chairman, and then first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional committee of the CPSU, he went all this way from 1959 to 1961.
From 1965 to 1983, he worked as First Secretary of the CPSU in Tomsk.
In 1966, Ligachev was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee, and ten years later in 1976 he became a member of the Central Committee.
Ligachev warmly supported reforms in the USSR and was initially a companion of Gorbachev, however, when Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika and glasnost began to move away from communist dogma and began to increasingly move toward social democratic politics, he disassociated himself from Gorbachev, and by 1988 he was recognized as the leader of the conservative factions of Soviet politicians who opposed Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev.
Ligachev was a member of the Politburo from 1985 to 1990. On September 30, 1988, Yegor Kuzmich, after giving a speech in which he harshly criticized the policies of the Secretary General of the USSR, was demoted from the post of secretary for ideology to the minister for agriculture.
At the 28th CPSU Congress in 1990, he criticized Gorbachev for being the first Soviet President without the approval of the CPSU and argued that publicity went too far.
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Ligachev was at the forefront of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in 1993. He was elected three times to the Russian State Duma as a member of the Communist Party. Until 2003, he was the oldest member of parliament until he lost the 2003 election, when he won 23.5 percent of the vote against candidate Vladimir Zhidkikh from United Russia, for which 53 percent voted.
