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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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Delilah
Delilah , in the Book of Judges, courtesan in the pay of the Philistines, perhaps a Philistine herself, who was loved by Samson . She learned that his strength lay in his long hair and betrayed him to his enemies by cutting it off.... 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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Kupava Birkett
...determination by learning English rapidly...time retained a love for the Lake District...pupils with her love for Russian language...imbued her with a love of music and she...as Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko had just ... |