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 in the gulag.
e. had supported Mao Zedong against Nikita Khrushchev.
c
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