Mikhail Gorbachev
a. was the well-placed son of the head of the state oil-refining corporation.
b. was picked for political leadership because of his record as a KGB data interpreter.
c. had moved up rapidly since his appointment to the Party Central Committee in 1978.
d. had spent many years as a farmer.
e. had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.
c
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