The Making of a General Secretary -- The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary -- Childhood and youth -- The young Gorbachev in Stavropol -- Kraikom secretary -- In charge of agriculture in the Politburo -- Andropov's ally -- Second-in-command -- Gorbachev in Power -- Changing the Kremlin guard -- Getting the country moving -- Domestic policy -- New diplomacy, but the same old foreign policy