The heir at last. (Mikhail Gorbachev) (editorial)

National Review | April 5, 1985 | Copyright

KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO is dead, presumably of natural causes. He remained a cipher to the end, a grey apparatchik whose accession to supreme power in the Soviet Union just over a year ago seemed as much a mystery to himself as to the Western world. Chernenko had emerged from the hidden reaches of the Kremlin bureaucracy under Brezhnev, whose favor initially was his only source of power. Brezhnev liked Chernenko, pampered him, promoted him, groomed him to take over--but upon Brezhnev's death in November 1982 the KGB-backed juggernaut of Yuri Andropov swept Chernenko aside, and ...

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