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| | Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko |
 | | 1984, Chernenko was appointed Chief of the Supreme Soviet (Head of the State) and Chief of the Supreme Defence Council. | | | Konstantin Chernenko was born in the village of Bolshaya Tes, (a Cossack settlement situated in Krasnoyarsk (2) kraj) on September the 24th (September the 11 | | | In 1960 Chernenko was appointed head of Secretariat of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet: under his initiative, new departments were created (i.e. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/riley/787/Soviet/Chernenko/Chernenko.htm
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| | Wikinfo Konstantin Chernenko |
| | Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984, until his death. | | | In late 1984, Politburo member Viktor Grishin dragged the deathly ill Chernenko from his hospital bed to a ballot box to vote in the elections. | | | The majority of the photos that were taken are in black and white. |
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| | Soviet-Empire.com - Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich |
| | In April, Chernenko became the largely ceremonial head of state as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. | | | Chernenko was elected General Secretary, despite his doctor's warning that he was too sick for the job. | | | Chernenko works to help push Brezhnev to right, to reject 20th and 22nd Congresses. |
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| | Russia |
| | After the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was chosen to become the new general secretary. |
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| | Russia - The Leadership Transition Period |
| | Stalin was rehabilitated as a diplomat and a military leader, and there was discussion of returning the name Stalingrad to the city whose name had been changed back to Volgograd during the anti-Stalinist wave of the 1950s. | | | But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee. | | | However, although Gorbachev acted as a deputy to the general secretary throughout Andropov's illness, Gorbachev's time had not yet arrived when his patron died early in 1984. |
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| | How long did it last -- National Organization for Women at UH |
| | Andropov died on February 9, 1984 and Chernenko was elected his replacement on February 13 but Chernenko was a compromise, stopgap candidate as Gorbachev, Andropov's protege, lacked sufficient support in the Politburo. | | | Andropov died on >February 9, 1984 and Chernenko was elected his >replacement on February 13 but Chernenko was a >compromise, stopgap candidate as Gorbachev, Andropov's >protege, lacked sufficient support in the Politburo. | | | Mikhail Gorbachev became the party's general secretary in 1985 following an interegnum after Brezhnev's death in 1982 when the party was led first by Yuri Andropov and then by Konstantin Chernenko. |
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| | Konstantin Chernenko Biography |
| | Chernenko was appointed head of the Krasnoyarsk Territorial Party Committee in 1941. | | | Konstantin Chernenko was born on September 24, 1911, in Bolshaya Tes, Novoselovo District, Russia. | | | Chernenko became Chief the staff of the Presidium in 1960. |
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| | Back In The USSR |
| | Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev crony, initially inherited Suslov’s mantle as the Communist Party’s chief ideologist and keeper of the faith when he stood next to Brezhnev at Suslov’s memorial service and then next to Defense Minister Dmitrii Ustinov at May Day ceremonies in Red square. | | | Chernenko’s eclipse in the light of Andropov’s rise reflected a weakening of Brezhnev’s role in his last days running the Kremlin. | | | Chernenko read Brezhnev’s message to a conference of Party officials in the armed forces and he took over ideological functions, including an urgent effort to put the Party back in touch with grassroots public opinion in the provinces in order, so the leaders assume, to prevent a Poland from happening in Russia. |
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| | A Soviet War Veteran Speaks Out |
| | When Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko died, a hastily called meeting of the CPSU Politburo voted five against to elect Mikhail Gorbachev as his successor. | | | On the day that Chernenko died (March 10, 1985–19.20 hrs) Romanov was in Vilnius, Lithuania with his wife. | | | In 1983 he was summoned to Moscow by the then president Yuri Andropov and became a member of the CPSU Politburo. |
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| | Yuri Andropov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A few days after Brezhnev's death (November 10, 1982), Andropov was the surprise appointment to General Secretary over Konstantin Chernenko. | | | He was the first head of the KGB to become General Secretary. | | | One of his most famous acts during his short time as leader of the Soviet Union was responding to a letter from an American child named Samantha Smith and inviting her to the Soviet Union, which resulted in Smith becoming a well-known peace activist. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov
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| | Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Soviet Union |
| | Mr Chernenko and Mr Yury Andropov had both been named to the same post prior to their appointment as general secretary. | | | Death of President Chernenko Appointment of Mr Gorbachev as CPSU general secretary | | | Mr Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, general secretary of the central committee of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU) since Feb. 13, 1984, Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces, and President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe How Gorbachev got the top job |
| | According to party custom, Gromyko spoke not in his own name, but said straight away that the profile of Mr Gorbachev he was presenting was a collective opinion. | | | He said a few sentences about the loss suffered by the party, with the death of Chernenko, then immediately gave the floor to Gromyko. | | | And Chernenko made Mr Gorbachev his unofficial deputy after he took up the post, giving him the job of chairing Politburo meetings in his absence. |
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| | A bit of stuff on Yuri Andropov... |
| | Chernenko's CV is less glorious and includes being secretary of the Krasnoryarsk Territory Party Committee and the Penza Region Committee, the head of agitation and propaganda in Moldavia, and finally Secretary in charge of General Department. | | | Chernenko had risen to fame because of his relations with Brezhnev but that was also his main problem: he was seen as "Brezhnev's ghost" and it was believed that he promised more stagnation. | | | it is likely that Chernenko had "cultivated his own ties with KGB personnel" as a result of being Brezhnev's protégé and his service in the NKVD Border Guards in the 1930s. |
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| | Index Ch |
| | On April 12 he became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. | | | After Brezhnev's death, however, he was unable to rally a majority of the party factions behind his candidacy to be head of the party and lost out to Yury Andropov, the former KGB chief, who became general secretary on Nov. 12, 1982. | | | An old-line conservative, Chernenko traveled extensively with Brezhnev and was considered his aide, confidant, and, by some observers, his heir apparent. |
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 11 1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader |
| | The British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will attend Chernenko's funeral on Wednesday - but the United States President Ronald Reagan will not be going. | | | Chernenko, 73, died yesterday after a long illness - but his death was only announced to the Soviet people this morning. | | | He was in poor health when he was appointed and his death was caused by heart failure brought on by problems with his lungs and liver. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_2538000/2538327.stm
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| | Wikinfo Mikhail Gorbachev |
| | In 1985, he traveled to the United Kingdom, where he met with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | | | On the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev, at age 54, was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party on March 11, 1985. | | | He was also close to Konstantin Chernenko, Andropov's successor, serving as second secretary. |
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| | WashingtonPost.com: The Gorbachev Factor |
| | Lip-service was paid to Chernenko as the supreme leader, but there was widespread awareness that this was no more than an interregnum and that if the real issues were to be tackled, it could only be when the physically declining Chernenko had departed from the scene. | | | A combination, however, of the failing health of Chernenko and the substantial foothold which Gorbachev already had in the Central Committee Secretariat meant that there was a stalemate in the leadership during the thirteen months between Chernenko's accession and his death in March 1985. | | | The limits were more evident than the power during the thirteen-month incumbency of Andropov's successor, Konstantin Chernenko. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/gorbache.htm
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| | Konstantin Chernenko -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | When Brezhnev died on Nov. 10, 1982, he was succeeded as party leader by Yury Andropov, although his chosen successor was Konstantin Chernenko. | | | Andropov had been head of the KGB from 1967 to May 1982. | | | Toward the end of his life, Brezhnev lost control of the country. |
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| | Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Moving to center stage; in his debut, Chernenko assumes a cautious but determined stance. | | | His health was poor and on his death (Mar. 13, 1985), he was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev. | | | Ending an era of drift; a speedy transition gives notice of a different style. |
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| | Russia |
| | Yuri V. Andropov, who had formerly headed the KGB, became his successor but died less than two years later, in Feb. 1984. | | | After 13 months in office, Chernenko died on March 10, 1985. | | | Konstantin U. Chernenko, a 72-year-old party stalwart who had been close to Brezhnev, succeeded him. |
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| | The American Experience Reagan Timeline (1983 - 1985) |
| | March 11: Konstantin Chernenko dies and is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54 years old, and referred to by Andrei Gromyko as "decisive, intelligent and capable in foreign affairs." | | | At 73 years of age, he is the oldest president ever to be sworn in. | | | Reagan had issued the invitation earlier in the year to Konstantin Chernenko. |
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Pope Benedict (Ratzinger) 16th |
| | It's about a short-term leader from an old guard, picked to maintain stability until time puts a new wave (generational, geographical, whatever) more clearly at the helm, and until accompanying doctrinal questions about surviving and thriving in a changed world are settled. | | | I thought the reference to Chernenko was as short term leader picked to serve until the power struggle between conservatives and reformers was settled. | | | Meanwhile, the two words that went through my head were: Konstantin Chernenko. |
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| | "A Complete Conformist" (Putin) |
| | "We were filled with joy as we emptied the bottle, and filled with gratitude for Konstantin Ustinovich: He had not tortured us for such a long time with his permanent dying as his predecessors Breshnev and Andropov did." | | | Someone at headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst has called with sad news for the comrades in the provinces: At home in Moscow, Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and supreme leader of the Soviet empire, has died. | | | There was staff turnover and a new man came into his office: Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich. |
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| | Konstantin Chernenko |
| | Konstantin Chernenko, the son of a peasant farmer, was born in Siberia in 1911. | | | Chernenko now became the new leader but ill-health forced him into retirement and he was replaced by | | | In 1971 Chernenko became a member of the Communist Party Central Committee. |
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| | Konstantin Chernenko |
| | He appointed Chernenko to chief of the Central Committee's agitation and propaganda position in 1956, to chief of staff of the Presidium in 1960, and to head of the General Department of the Central Committee in 1965. | | | Chernenko was perceived only as a temporary caretaker of the government and an agent of change from the reforms of Andropov and his younger technocrats. | | | He was named general secretary of the Soviet Union, chairperson of the Presidium, and leader of the Defense Council after Andropov's death in 1984. |
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| | On his death in the following year Chernenko was succeeded as general secretary by Mikhail Gorbachev and as President by Andrei Gromyko. | | | Andropov died in 1984, however, and was succeeded in both posts by Konstantin Chernenko. |
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| | Cold War Record Is Riddled with Rewrites |
| | Opposing such a defensive system for the United States were Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and the leadership of the liberals. | | | Opposing the liberation were Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and the leadership of the liberals. | | | It was the conservatives who supported the liberation of Grenada that brought about free elections in that island-nation. |
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| | National Review: After Andropov; the emergence of Konstantin - part 2 - Konstantin Chernenko |
| | The Brezhnev protege through and through, Chernenko had been elevated by his mentor from the ranks of the Kremlin staff to the pinnacle of the Politburo and groomed to be his successor. | | | But Chernenko was pushed aside rather easily when Brezhnev died, and his star seemed certain to fade. | | | The logical culmination of this process ought to have been the emergence of a new Brezhnev, a younger man than Andropov who could lead the Soviet Empire into the 1990s. |
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| | RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: C :: Chernenko, Konstantin |
| | When Yuri Andropov died in 1984, Chernenko was elected general secretary of the Communist party and chairman of the Presidium. | | | A protege of Leonid Brezhnev, he rose through Communist party ranks in the 1950s, becoming a full member of the Central Committee (1971) and the Politburo (1978). | | | Khabarovsk is the last major stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway before Vladivostok |
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| | Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Born to a Russian peasant family in the Yeniseysk region of Siberia, Chernenko joined the Communist Party in 1931. | | | Trained as a party propagandist, he held several administrative posts before… | | | During the 1950s the Actors Studio in New York City became well known in theater circles for teaching method acting. |
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| | i80s.com - 80s Culture - 1984 |
| | Konstantin Chernenko becomes Soviet leader after the sudden death of Yuri Andropov. | | | Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean, British ice-skating duo from Britain win the gold medal at the Olympic games. |
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| | U.S. News & World Report: How Chernenko will deal with Reagan. (Konstantin Chernenko)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Only days after taking power in the Soviet Union, Konstantin Chernenko is sending a double-edged message to the United States. | | | Chernenko, only the sixth leader in the history of the Communist-ruled Soviet Union, recognizes the desire of the U.S. to open a... | | | Basic policies laid down during the 15-month reign of Yuri Andropov will be retained. |
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| | National Review: Chernenko speaks - Konstantin Chernenko |
| | We know this because of the interview Chernenko recently granted to Dusko Doder, Moscow correspondent of the Washington Post. | | | Instead, Doder asked what can only be described as pattycake questions--such as, "Are you optimistic about the present development of Soviet-American relations?' and "Should not both sides take some small steps?'-- which enabled Chernenko to give his message to the American electorate a few days before the second debate between Reagan and Mondale. | | | In contrast to the press interviews of American Presidents, the questions posed in this Moscow interview weren't adversarial or accusatorial. |
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| | The loyal barber is stropping his razor and has his back to the door, so he only hears Chernenko walk in. | | | The most cynical of which is: One day Kostantin Ustinovich tells his secretary Ivanov, "Ivan Ivanovich, I want to abolish time zones." I.I.I. responds, "Konstantin Ustinovich, you can't simply abolish time zones. | | | And not too long before that I called Rome to offer my condolences on the Pope's death and it turned out I called too early." There is also the old bromide about Konstantin Ustinovich walking in to the Kremlin barber to get a haircut. |
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| | Book spooks Putin's spy image - www.smh.com.au |
| | At least he hadn't tortured us with his permanent dying, as his predecessors Brezhnev and Andropov had done." | | | When the Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko died in 1985, Mr Putin - then a KGB major - and six fellow secret service officers are said to have cracked open bottles of champagne. | | | The revelations about Mr Putin's career come in Comrade in Arms, a book by Vladimir Usoltsev, with whom he shared an office in Dresden in the 1980s. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/26/1067103270852.html
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| | Time: Sick leave; Chernenko rumors abound. (Konstantin Chernenko)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Soviet party leader and President, 73, who is believed to be suffering from emphysema, has been absent from public view for about a month. | | | Three days earlier he had missed the funeral of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, held in Red Square on a bitterly cold day. | | | Soviet television last showed an apparently frail Chernenko on Dec. 27, handing out awards at a Kremlin ceremony. |
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| | THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE |
| | This insidious treason is, however, couched in the hypnotic and deceitful phrase "national security." The petition you have just read "duly filed with the Registrar of the International Court of Justice at The Hague on February 12, 1985 "challenges the very legitimacy of that treason. | | | The two respondents, Presidents Reagan and Chernenko, are, in nationalist terms, seemingly the two most powerful men on earth. | | | Both Reagan and Chernenko enjoin your exclusive national allegiance at the expense of humanity's annihilation! |
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| | CHERNENKO SUSPECT IN MCVEIGH ESCAPE |
| | Experts in Middle East affairs, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, dismiss reports of Chernenko's involvement as “pure speculation.” Chernenko hasn't been seen since he reported himself missing in March of 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev replaced him as leader of the former Soviet Union. | | | VLADBARDISTOVAKOLDA (YU) – Unnamed sources close to the investigation into the escape of Timothy McVeigh just hours before his scheduled crucifixion now claim that former general secretary of the Communist party and chairman of the Presidium, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko is considered a prime suspect. | | | Singer Christine McVie of the dinosaur rock group Fleetwood Mac was accidentally given the lethal injection intended for McVeigh and is presumed dead, according to autopsy reports. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Krasnoyarsk |
| | Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich (1911-1985), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and leader of the Union of Soviet... | | | See all search results in Encarta Articles (4) | | | Siberia is especially rich in mineral resources, most notably coal, gold, iron ore, natural gas, and oil. |
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| | Sound Politics: Council Cat Fight |
| | Larry Phillips, who bears an amusing resemblance to the late USSR Communist Party General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko, is supported by fellow urban Bolsheviks Larry Gossett and Dow Konstantin in his bid for an unprecedented second two-year team as Council Chairman. | | | Hopefully Ferguson has studied exactly the extent of his power.....and will use it to also neutralize Sims. | | | Ferguson has positioned himslef PERFECTLY to be in charge of that Council. |
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| | A Look Into Putin's Dresden Days |
| | PETERSBURG -- President Vladimir Putin once joined his colleagues to drink to the early death of Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko and believed that the Soviet Union was doomed, according to a new book written by one of his former colleagues. | | | The book, "Sosluzhivets," or "Professional Comrade," was penned by Vladimir Usoltsev, who sat at a desk across from Putin -- known then as "little Volodya" -- during the future president's posting to the East German city of Dresden from 1984 to 1990. | | | You might also be interested in our free E-mail News Summary, which delivers our entire edition every day straight to your inbox. |
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| | NATO Update - 1984 |
| | In February 1984, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies and is succeeded by the ailing Konstantin Chernenko. | | | Following the death of Chernenko in March 1985, the younger and more dynamic Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power. | | | The new leader initiates a programme - perestroika - to restructure the Soviet economy which is plagued by low productivity, enormous waste, planning mistakes and constant shortages. |
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| | One Hundred Years of Revolution |
| | The successive deaths of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko opened the way for a new type of leadership in the USSR. | | | US President Ronald Reagan was escalating Cold War rhetoric, and the future looked uncertain. |
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