After Andropov; the emergence of Konstantin. (part 2) (Konstantin Chernenko)

National Review | March 9, 1984 | Copyright

II. The Emergence of Konstantin

IN RETROSPECT, it is clear that a massive generational changeover began in the Soviet Union with the death of Mikhail Suslov in January 1982. For nearly a quarter of a century Suslov had been the kingmaker of Soviet politics, a man who never held the top post of General Secretary himself but without whose support that post could never be attained or kept.

Suslov epitomized the generation of Soviet apparatchiks who took power after Stalin died, and his death, like the opening of a floodgate, marked the beginning of the end of that ...

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