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| | MSN Encarta - Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich |
 | | In addition to Fyodor Kulakov, Gorbachev enjoyed the confidence of Mikhail Suslov, who served as senior secretary for ideology of the CPSU, and of Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. | | | Brezhnev, who died in November 1982, was briefly succeeded by Yuri Andropov and then by Konstantin Chernenko. | | | Gorbachev owed his political advancement to his vigorous performance in office and also to personal connections. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552563/Gorbachev_Mikhail_Sergeyevich.html
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| | Известия Науки - THE ENIGMATIC ANDROPOV |
| | Andropov and his advisers maintained a kind of relationship befitting a sovereign and the liberals. | | | But Andropov did come back right after the death of Suslov and moved in his office. | | | However, Taganska’s Yuri Lyubimov sought his help prior to taking the final decision on political asylum in the West. |
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http://www.inauka.ru/english/article47631/print.html
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| | In Stalin's Footsteps Yuri Andropov: Rise of a Dictator |
| | Although the Politburo "election" of Andropov to be party chief immediately after Brezhnev's funeral appeared to be a well-greased political maneuver, there are some cracks in Yuri Andropov's Kremlin wall. | | | Many in the West may have felt that Philby was enjoying well-deserved rest and retirement in Moscow, but the fact is that he became both friend and adviser to Yuri Andropov. | | | In 1967, as he turned 53, he was made head of the Committee for State Security, known throughout the world by its acronym - KGB. |
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/countriesandregions/exurss/stalinsfootsteps.shtml
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| | The Andropov Hoax |
| | Sakharov was never actually in the K.G.B., though he does recount two efforts to recruit him; at the time of his defection, he was a 26-yearold diplomat in the Foreign Ministry. | | | If it had been known in the diplomatic commurut~ in Moscow, he savs, he would have been briefed on it Zebigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser, shares Toon's skepticism. | | | Later that year Sakharov went off to Egypt as a junior diplomat. |
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http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/andropov.htm
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| | The defendant will not be allowed to hold the office of President/Chairman of the C.E.C., Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Congress of Soviets for the duration of his probation, which will be 31 days as of the time of the announcement of the sentence. | | | The Political Unity Act, which was passed by the Congress of Soviets on the 15th, has just been uploaded to the law section of our site. | | | Keith) guilty, of his own admission, of all charges brought against him. |
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http://www.soviet-empire.com/ftm_news/arc3-2002.php
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| | Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October |
| | It is the responsibility of revolutionists to defend the Soviet Union despite the rule of Yuri Andropov and his caste—but not in his name! | | | Nagy had left the embassy after receiving a written guarantee of safe conduct from the Hungarian prime minister, János Kádár, though there is reasonable doubt as to whether Kádár himself realised that he was involved in an act of treachery. | | | The high point of the trials came more than a year later when Imre Nagy, along with Pál Maléter and other leaders of the revolution, were secretly tried in Budapest, sentenced and executed on June 16, 1958. |
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| | Yuri Andropov |
| | In 1973 Andropov became a member of the Politburo and on the death of | | | After the Second World War Andropov became the Second Party Secretary in Karelia. | | | Andropov was impressed with his work and used his considerable influence to promote Gorbachev's career. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDandropov.htm
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| | Commentary Magazine - Andropov: New Challenge to the West, by Arnold Beichman and Mikhail S. Bernstam |
| | ...Andropov's successful progress through the Communist party's labyrinths of power was facilitated, Beichman and Bernstam suggest, by a powerful protector, the late Mikhail Suslov, long known as the guardian of Stalinist doctrinal purity... | | | ...Such was, in sum, Andropov's background prior to his eventual elevation to chairmanship of the USSR Council of Ministers State Security Committee, better known by its Russian acronym KGB... | | | ...Andropov's one significant assignment outside of his main career as party bureaucrat and secret policeman was in Hungary, where he spent some years on the staff of the Soviet embassy and served as Soviet ambassador in Budapest during the fateful days of the Hungarian revolution in the fall of 1956... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V76I6P87-1.htm
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| | Samantha Smith: America's Youngest Ambassador |
| | Samantha thought her mother ought to write to the new president of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov. | | | When she got home from school that day, Samantha sat down and wrote another letter, this one to the Soviet ambassador in Washington, D. She hoped that perhaps he could explain to her what was going on. | | | A few days later, the ambassador called Samantha at home and told her that a letter from President Andropov was on its way. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_for_children/17086
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| | Fedorchuk named MVD chief, Chebrikov fills KGB post (12/26/82) |
| | Fedorchuk, 64, will replace Nikolai Shcholokov, 72, a close associate of late President Leonid Brezhnev and who had been the minister since 1966, but was not a member of the Politburo. | | | The KGB post will be filled by Viktor Chebrikov, 59, a deputy chief during much of Mr. | | | MOSCOW - Vitaly Fedorchuk, who headed the KGB in his native Ukraine for 12 years before being named to succeed Yuri Andropov as all-union head of the KGB last May, has been chosen to head the Ministry of Internal Affairs, according to a December 17 release from the official Soviet news agency TASS. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1982/528205.shtml
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| | Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - He may be an economic liberal, but Putin is an Andropov at heart |
| | No one could reasonably suggest that Russia should be governed along the lines of a Liberal Democrat parish council. | | | Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - He may be an economic liberal, but Putin is an Andropov at heart | | | Yuri Andropov, known as ‘The Butcher of Budapest’ for his ruthless suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956, was head of the KGB for 15 years. |
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=735672004
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| | No. 96-D 2 |
| | It is also due to the fact that the new Foreign Minister may be as cunning, ruthless and unwavering as the former General Secretary in his service to totalitarian imperialism. | | | (Washington, D.C.): The appointment of Yevgeny Primakov as Russia's Foreign Minister yesterday marks perhaps the most ominous transfer of power in Moscow since Yuri Andropov became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982. | | | This is not only because, like Andropov, Primakov has had powerful links to the KGB throughout his career. |
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http://www.security-policy.org/papers/1996/96-D2.html
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| | Soviet-Empire.com - Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich |
| | Ustinov nominates Andropov as General Secretary and the majority is in favor. | | | Andropov tells subordinates "Khrushchev was not removed because of his criticism of Stalin's cult of personality and his policy of peaceful coexistence. | | | Andropov agrees that writers should be given some freedom but also argues that literature has the duty to help the Party and state in its struggle for order. |
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| | Russia Reform Monitor No. 441, May 12, 1998 |
| | American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C. Billion-Dollar Warship, the Former Yuri Andropov, is Commissioned; | | | Russia Reform Monitor No. 441, May 12, 1998 |
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| | Telegraph News 'Butcher of Budapest' becomes the new inspiration |
| | Despite Mr Andropov's harsh record with dissidents, President Putin, with whom he shared a KGB background, has let it be known that he considers him a patriot and a great reformer. | | | In Stavropol, where Mr Andropov was born in a railway siding in 1914, there was a round-table discussion on his role as Soviet leader. | | | Mr Andropov gained his most insulting sobriquet from Hungarians appalled by his duplicity in the crushing of the anti-Russian uprising in 1956. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/16/wandro16.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/16/ixworld.html
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| | Andropov Apartment Auction - Johnson's Russia List 1-28-03 |
| | Mr Petrov reportedly got to live there through his contacts with Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov. | | | Number 26 Kutuzovsky Prospekt may not sound like a prestigious address but it contains the sparse, three-bedroom flat which Mr Andropov chose as his city dwelling for his last 16 years. | | | A recent poll suggested that 18% of Russians liken Mr Andropov to another former spy who weaved his way to the top, Vladimir Putin. |
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| | U.S. News & World Report: The deepening mystery of Russia's Andropov. (Yuri Andropov)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Kremlin leaders are going to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate that Yuri Andropov is still making the key decisions despite an illness that has kept him off the public stage since August 18, 1983. | | | Incapacitated reportedly by a grave kidney ailment as well as diabetes and a heart condition, the 69-year-old Soviet President failed to show up in late December at two of the most important events on Moscow's... | | | U.S. News & World Report: The deepening mystery of Russia's Andropov. |
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| | Search Results for "Yuri" |
| | Konstantin Chernenko was elected to succeed Andropov as... | | | ATTRIBUTION: On Ambassador Yuri V Andropov s pretense of peace while Soviet forces were preparing... | | | ...NUMBER: 432 AUTHOR: Yuri V Dubinin QUOTATION: I only understand positive statements in English. |
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| | RUSNET.NL :: Encyclopedia :: A :: Andropov, Yuri |
| | Yuri Andropov was born 1914 in Nagutskoye near Stavropol in southern Russia (Mikhail Gorbachev was born in the same area). | | | Yuri Andropov - former first head of the Committee of State Security (KGB) who rose to the top of the Soviet Union. | | | After spending a few years in the party's Secretariat staff, he was made ambassador to Hungary 1954. |
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| | Yuri Andropov |
| | Soon after ex-KGB chief Yuri Andropov assumed power in the Soviet Union in November 1982, his image was progressively airbrushed by American newspapers until he became a pro-dissident, anti-authority English-speaking, Coke- drinking, Nike-wearing liberal. |
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| | This Day in History |
| | In 1982, long-time leader Leonid Brezhnev died; Yuri Andropov was his successor. | | | While Andropov was not radical in his approach to politics and economics, he did seem to sincerely desire a better relationship with the United States. | | | Whether this would have borne fruit is unknown; just a year later, Andropov died. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Memorial to KGB head sparks bust-up |
| | Mr Andropov was head of the KGB for 15 years. | | | Under his rule, repressions against political dissidents were stepped up. | | | Nevertheless today in Russia, in the corridors of power, Mr Andropov has become something of an icon - perhaps not surprising in a country where the current president is another former KGB chief, and where so many ex-KGB officers now hold key positions. |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Russia unveils monument honoring Andropov |
| | He died in 1984 and had been out of public view because of illness for much of his time as the country's leader. | | | The monument is located near the local office of the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency. | | | Andropov was Soviet ambassador to Hungary and oversaw the Moscow-ordered invasion of the country that crushed the 1956 uprising. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/08/russia_unveils_monument_honoring_andropov
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| | The Chekist Legacy Code and the Frankenstein Presidency of John Kerry |
| | Yuri Andropov was the head of the KGB for fifteen years before he became head of the Soviet Union in 1982. | | | At that point, it would have been nice if President Bush simply announced the end of the debate, the end of his active campaigning for the Presidency and told the American public the ‘choice’ is theirs and that we have troops in the field and that he had a war to run as commander-in-chief. | | | You see with all the rehashing and reexamination of the Vietnam War during the current political season we should have also rehashed and reexamined the larger conflict, which Vietnam was a part of – the Cold War. |
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| | Ion Mihai Pacepa on Vladimir Putin on National Review Online |
| | In the West, if Andropov is remembered at all, it is for his brutal suppression of political dissidence at home and for his role in planning the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. | | | Andropov would have to wait ten years until Brezhnev died, but on November 12, 1982, he did take up the country's reins. | | | In 1999, when Putin became prime minister, he also surrounded himself with KGB officers, who began describing him as a "Europeanized" leader — capitalizing, ironically, on the fact that he had been a KGB spy abroad. |
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| | SPECIAL STORY |
| | Yuri Andropov responded to Samantha with the following diplomatic letter, abbreviated here, in which he clarified that his country's intention was peaceful. | | | Following is the text of the letter from Soviet President Yuri Andropv to Samantha Smith in 1982. | | | Her visit to Russia was also a triumph for Yuri Andropov and his country, for it brought her letter and Andropov's skillful response into public view, and in the process generated a wave of goodwill toward the Soviet Union. |
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| | Star Wars Resource 1: Session of Politburo of CC CPSU 31 May 1983 |
| | This would be our collective action of the countries of Warsaw Pact. | | | This we also have to use skillfully in our propaganda and in our practical interests. | | | Why don't we write a letter to Reagan from the name of comrade Andropov? |
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http://learning.turner.com/cnn/coldwar/starwars/star_re1.html
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| | The Voice of Russia [ XX CENTURY: FOOTPRINTS IN HISTORY ] |
| | Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were not good, the two countries were engaged in a Cold War. | | | Laid low by ill health, Yuri Andropov was too sick to meet Samantha in person and just sent his best regards conveyed to her by top-ranking Kremlin officials. | | | Because the Americans are an exacting people who never leave a letter unanswered, Samantha wrote back asking many questions about the Soviet Union and whether the Russians wanted a new war. |
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| | The KGB's Man--By ION MIHAI PACEPA |
| | Andropov thought that Vietnam-weary Americans would snatch at the smallest sign of conciliation to promote Arafat from terrorist to statesman in their hopes for peace. | | | We'd already had great success in making Washington -- as well as most of the fashionable left-leaning American academics of the day -- believe that Nicolae Ceausescu was, like Josip Broz Tito, an "independent" Communist with a "moderate" streak. | | | We'd outgrown Stalinist cults of personality, but those crazy Americans were still naïve enough to revere national leaders. |
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Yuri Is Dead; Long Live... |
| | Secretary of State George Schultz added his own share of tactlessness in his grotesque call for the Russians to make "new contacts" with the U.S., as if Andropov had somehow been the cause of Russian diffidence. | | | The tact-less, admonitory lone of the Reagan letter of condolence and the Secretary of State's call for "new contacts" have the air of a gunfighter dictating terms; one would imagine the president holding his pistol to the hotline while saying, "Now get up slow..." | | | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Yuri Is Dead; Long Live... |
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| | Samantha Smith |
| | In December 1982 Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Me., wrote to Soviet President Yuri Andropov to ask if he was going to wage a nuclear war against the U.S. She toured the USSR at his invitation the following July and as a result, became first a media celebrity and then a television actress. |
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| | Protesters Against KGB Leader’s Monument Detained - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM |
| | Andropov led the KGB from 1967 till 1982. | | | In the republic of Karelia of which Petrozavodsk is the capital, Andropov led the youth organization of the Communist Party and was the leader of an underground organization in World War II. | | | Monument of the leader of KGB Yuri Andropov in the northern city of Petrozavodsk / Frame from NTV Channel |
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| | CNN Cold War - First Draft: Pravda |
| | A group of well-known American scientists and public figures have sent a telegram to Yuri V. Andropov, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, containing an appeal for a ban on space weapons. | | | The authors of the appeal called particular attention to the fact that the exploration of space by man and especially the scientific data obtained as a result of interplanetary flights and observations from space stations have changed our ideas about the universe. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/1st.draft/pravda.html
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| | Bucharest, 29 September 1958: Letter |
| | In a Soviet magazine, “The State and the Law”, the issue of giving a new interpretation to the idea of national sovereignty, which is outdated, is raised for open discussion. | | | [Another issue] is that of the Iron Metallurgy Industrial Trust in Galati, which – I inform comrade Andropov – is the main objective of our five-year plan in accordance with the decisions of the 3rd Congress. | | | Note of the talks held at the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers’ Party on 3 April 1963, with comrade Yuri Andropov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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| | A Tiny Revolution: The Menace of Nutopia |
| | In December 1980, the month after Reagan's election, KGB chief [Yuri] Andropov circulated a confidential memorandum to the Central Committee. | | | Andropov reported that "in many of Moscow's establishments of higher education," anonymous posters had appeared to organize a demonstration in memory of the ex-Beatle. | | | It's good to know that Yuri Andropov and J. Edgar Hoover -- despite their differences in ideology, history, etc. -- did share some common ground: ie, a bizarre fixation on the menace posed by John Lennon. |
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| | Russia Reform Monitor No. 729, January 10, 2000 |
| | The Nixon Center's Dimitri Simes counters that instead of a democratic successor to Yeltsin, "we got a younger version of Yuri Andropov." McFaul shoots back, "There is a giant difference between Yuri Andropov and Vladimir Putin in that Vladimir Putin will be elected in a free and fair election in March." | | | A bronze plaque of Soviet KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov, removed from the facade of the Lubyanka state security headquarters during the anti-KGB sentiments of 1991, has been restored, The Independent reports. | | | Putin does not seem to mind the new press commentary comparing him in favorable terms to Andropov. |
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| | Learning To Love You More |
| | Yuri Andropov died and I hoped that people would stop calling me Yuri Andropov based on the fact we shared the same first name, because it just wasn t funny and I didn t like being embarrassed for those who called me that. | | | It was a hot summer in Los Angeles, teeming with lost tourists that descended there for the summer Olympics, and it was the first time I conceived of a life for myself elsewhere when I grow up. | | | It took years afterwards to come into my own again and not feel things with such rawness. |
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| | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich - definition of Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and ... |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich is not available in the general English dictionary and thesaurus. | | | You may also use the word browser links: |
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| | The New York Review of Books: Yuri Andropov by David Levine |
| | This drawing originally appeared with The Andropov Succession | | | The cover date of the next issue of The New York Review of Books will be April 6, 2006. | | | The New York Review of Books: Yuri Andropov by David Levine |
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