Placeholder before Perestroika: The Life and Death of the USSR’s final pre-Gorbachov gerontocrat ...News

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Forty years ago, on February 13, 1984, Konstantin Chernenko became General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Remembered by his contemporaries as a sickly old man who moved with difficulty and had speech problems, Konstantin Chernenko ruled the USSR for only 13 months and spent most of that time in hospital. However, the Chernenko phenomenon deserves a second look, as much of his activity was linked to the fateful processes that came to define the final years of the Soviet Union. Indeed, his death paved the way for the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev. The rapid worsening of Chernenko's health echoed the fa

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