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| | Yegor Ligachev |
 | | The conflict between the two men culminated at a party congress held in July where Ligachev was removed from the party leadership and sent into retirement. | | | However, once Gorbachev began to institute his glasnost and perestroika reform programs, Ligachev gradually became an opponent of Gorbachev's by 1988 and leader of the Kremlin's conservative faction. | | | The faction was not strong enough to elect Gorbachev when Andropov died, however, and Konstantin Chernenko was chosen as a compromise, stop-gap candidate. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/Y/Yegor-Ligachev.htm
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| | Fond 89 and the Fall of the Soviet Union by Gordan Hahn |
| | This appointment presaged Ligachev's downfall at the party congress in July, where Ligachev was defeated and retired. | | | Weeks later another Politburo meeting ended in a stormy row between Gorbachev and Ligachev. | | | We held the Third Congress of People's Deputies, and we did not decide anything. |
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http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/981/hahn.html
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Russia Special Report |
| | It came only hours after President Mikhail Gorbachev's most prominent hard-line rival, Yegor Ligachev, was defeated in a bid to win the post of deputy party leader. | | | Ligachev was not included on the list of Central Committee candidates nominated by party leaders from the 15 republics and the central leadership, meaning that he will have to give up his post as the party secretary overseeing agriculture. | | | The conservative standard-bearer, Ligachev, managed only 776 votes against 3,109 for Ukrainian party leader Vladimir Ivashko, who was Gorbachev's nominee. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/stories/quits071390.htm
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| | PS-USSR |
| | For example, at the 28th Congress of the CPSU in July 1990 Yegor Ligachev: | | | Ligachev was highly critical of the reintroduction of private ownership, declaring scornfully that this was hardly 'the last word in socialist theory'" | | | IT WAS HEADED BY Naturally, in the 1980s each of the political groupings within the CPSU still felt it expedient to claim that it, an] it alone, was pursuing a Marxist-Leninist political line. |
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http://website.lineone.net/~comleague/book/PS-USSR.html
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| | The Moscow News |
| | Interestingly, Gorbachev does not say a single word in his memoirs about his reasons for Romanov's expulsion, stating baldly that he frankly suggested to the man that "there was no place for him in the leadership." Romanov "wept a little, but eventually accepted" his fate, becoming a non-person overnight. | | | He was first secretary of the Siberian region of Tomsk, when, in 1983, Andropov moved him to the all-important post of head of the Central Committee otdel orgpartraboty, or "department for organizational Party work," and the same year promoted him to Central Com-mittee secretary. | | | This department dealt with Party cadres and, working directly under Gorbachev, Ligachev did a great deal to knock together the pro-Gorbachev faction in the Party. |
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http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2004-20-11
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| | MSN Encarta - Boris Yeltsin |
| | On the recommendation of Gorbachev’s lieutenant Yegor Ligachev, Yeltsin was made secretary of the Central Committee for construction in July 1985. | | | A turning point in Yeltsin’s career came when he became frustrated with the gradual pace of perestroika, as Gorbachev’s program of political and economic reforms was called. | | | Taking the floor at a Central Committee meeting in October 1987 to lambaste Gorbachev, Ligachev, and other party leaders for being content with “half measures,” Yeltsin said he wished to resign in protest. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562873/Boris_Yeltsin.html
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| | Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin - Yegor Ligachev |
| | Ligachev defends with stubborn rectitude the case that he doubtless made during the last six years of Soviet power. | | | Ligachev, at the outset a supporter of Gorbachev and his plans to reform the sclerosed Soviet system, became a conservative Cassandra warning of the dangers in what he saw as the excesses of perestroika: an unfettered press, the weakening of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as an effective political instrument, and the like. | | | In many ways this is the most interesting memoir yet produced by a leader from the Gorbachev era. |
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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19930601fabook5362/yegor-ligachev/inside-gorbachev-s-kremlin.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - The Latest Myths About the Soviet Union |
| | ...Yegor Ligachev, the figure in the Gorbachev Politburo most frequently associated with ideological affairs, may have announced the domestic publication of a novel by the late Boris Pasternak, but he has also emphasized that "television and radio broadcasts must be fully and totally political. |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V83I5P19-1.htm
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| | TIME Magazine Archive Preview -- Soviet Union Curbing Glasnost -- Oct. 05, 1987 |
| | According to the New York Times, Ligachev, 66, made a stinging speech at a... | | | One of the most outspoken critics has been Yegor Ligachev, the second-ranking Communist Party leader in the Politburo, who has followed up nearly every official nod toward openness with an admonition of restraint. | | | Ever since 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev first used the term glasnost to refer to the new openness that he hoped would invigorate Soviet society, the policy has had its high-level detractors. |
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http://time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1101871005-145149,00.html
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