Biography of Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev

Name: Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev
Birth Date: November 29, 1920
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Dubinkino, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nationality: Soviet
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician

Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev

Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev (born 1920) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1966. During the 1980s he became a leading advocate of a more conservative approach to perestroika but was ousted from command in 1990.At the stormy and controversial 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in July 1990, Yegor Ligachev, a member of Mikhail Gorbachev's Politburo since 1985 and secretary of the Central Committee with responsibilities in agriculture, stood up to denounce the general course of the U.S.S.R. since 1985. He no doubt expressed the frustrations of many long-time party loyalists when he stated: "Thoughtless radicalism, improvisation, and swinging from side to side have yielded us little good during the past five years of perestroika." At the Congress, Ligachev presented himself as the spokesperson for traditional Marxist-Leninist, socialist values developed since 1917, in distinction to the new centrist …showed first 150 words…

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…showed last 150 words…start. Essays in Seweryn Bialer's Inside Gorbachev's Russia (1989) also provide insights on the man and his views, as does Jonathan Harris' study Ligachev on Glasnost and Perestroika (No. 5 of the Carl Beck Papers, University of Pittsburgh). Harris carefully documents Ligachev's speeches and activities through 1988, and one can perceive the pattern of Ligachev's persistent opposition to Gorbachev, while publicly maintaining allegiance to the policies of perestroika. Ligachev's central role in the "Yeltsin Affair" is treated by Bialer also in U.S. News and World Report (March 28, 1988). New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 1988) contains an interesting interview with Ligachev in which he affirms that he and Gorbachev "are on the same wave length." Yegor Ligachev's final attempts to oppose Gorbachev are published in his unabridged bookThe Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev: Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin(1993) Introduction by Stephen F. Cohen. In the book, Ligachev recaptures the history between himself and Gorbachev throughout their years in politics.

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