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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko , 1911-85, Soviet political leader. A protégé 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). When Yuri Andropov died (1984), he was elected... Read more |
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Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov , 1914-84, Soviet Communist leader (1982-84). As ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, he played a major role in the suppression of the 1956 anti-Communist uprising there. In 1957 he was appointed head of liaison between the Communist party of the Soviet Union and its... Read more |
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Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov
Russian and Soviet leaders General Secretary of the Communist Party1 Equivalent of Prime Minister of the USSR2 Between 1917 and 1953, the Council of Ministers was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars1922–53 Joseph Stalin (b. Dzhugashvili)1953 Georgi Malenkov1953–64 Nikita ... Read more |
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , 1931-, Soviet political leader. Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?-99). Returning to Stavropol, he moved gradually upward in the... Read more |
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Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov
AKSAKOV, KONSTANTIN SERGEYEVICH (1817–1860), Slavophile ideologue and journalist. Konstantin Aksakov was a member of one of the most famous literary families in nineteenth-century Russia. His father was the well-known theater critic and memoirist Sergei Aksakov; his brother, Ivan Aksakov,... Read more |
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Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
POBEDONOSTSEV, KONSTANTIN (1827–1907), conservative statesman, professor and chair of civil law at Moscow University (1860–1865), senator, chief procurator of the Holy Synod (1880 Read more |
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Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontiev
LEONT'EV, KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH(1831–1891) Konstantin Nikolaevich Leont'ev was a Russian writer, philosopher, critic, and publicist. Like almost all important nineteenth-century Russian authors, Leont'ev came from a family of landowners. He was trained in medicine at the University of... Read more |
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Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov The Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979) is best known for his patriotic verse dealing with World War II and for his vivid prose descriptions of Soviet troops in action during the war. Konstantin Simonov was born on Nov. 28,... Read more |
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Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov
Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (1890-1974) was one of the Russian avant-garde's most prolific and internationally celebrated architects during the 1920s. By 1937 the individualism of his architecture no longer had a place in Stalin's U.S.S.R. Konstantin... Read more |
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New Dutch Consul Happy to be Back in Russia, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
...thatflicker of light was smothered by Andropov's death and Konstantin Chernenko'sassent to power, which largely returned the country...he served in Germany for a time," hesaid. Hoeks speaks fluent Russian, which he learned before his time inMoscow... |
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U.S. envoy helps heal the wounds with Russia Ambassador's father fought for...
...is no environment for sentimental journeys. Beyrle speaks of the August crisis with the emphatic cool of a three...Airlines Flight 007, and the destabilizing deaths of Konstantin Chernenko and Yuri Andropov. "I have," he said evenly... |
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SOVIET PRESS CRITICIZES BREZHNEV.(Main)
...official organ of the Central Committee of the party and speaks with authority on such matters. Pravda praised some...who came to power in March 1985, after the death of Konstantin U. Chernenko, a Brezhnev protege who succeeded Andropov. It said... |
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Pravda turns guns on Brezhnev's reign
...official organ of the Central Committee of the party and speaks with authority on such matters. Although crediting...Gorbachev, who came to power in March, 1985, after Konstantin U. Chernenko died. He was a Brezhnev protege who succeeded Andropov... |
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