At around the same time, still only aged 29, Morozov was offered and accepted a university assistant-professorship in the department for "Scientific communism" ("Научный коммунизм"). Meanwhile, it quickly became clear that his sudden interest in politics was no mere aberration. Between 1985 and 1987 he served as a deputy secretary with the university party committee. During this time he returned home one evening and announced to his wife that he had been summoned to a meeting with the regional party, to be offered the headship of its department for Agitation and Propaganda: he had accepted. Since well before 1953 the Soviet Union had incorporated a structural bias in favour of gerontocracy. Morozov was 33. When offering him the job the committee had informed him that, through the entire period of Soviet power, they had never employed so young a head of Agitprop. Oleg Viktorovich had found himself on the launch pad for a stellar rise through the ranks in the world of Soviet politics. Between 1987 and 1989 he headed up the Tartar regional committee department for the CPSU nationally, a position he held concurrently with the regional Agitprop headship.