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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko [a] [b] (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) [2] was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 1984 until his death a year later.
Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) [50] 9 February 1984 [50] ↓ 10 March 1985† 1 year, 29 days — General Secretary of the Communist Party Nikolai Tikhonov Vasily Kuznetsov (acting) Himself: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party [51] and Chairman of the Presidium from 11 April 1984 to 10 March 1985. [52]
Collective leadership continued under Yuri Andropov (General Secretary from 1982 to 1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (General Secretary from 1984 to 1985). Mikhail Gorbachev 's reforms espoused open discussion from about 1986, leading to members of the leadership openly disagreeing on how little or how much reform was needed to rejuvenate the ...
Rezo Gigineishvili’s “Patient #1” is the 2023 winner of the annual Werner Herzog Film Award. Set at the end of the Soviet era, the film focuses on the decline in power of Konstantin ...
Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) [43] 13 February 1984 10 March 1985 † 1 year, 25 days Chernenko was 72 years old when elected to the post of General Secretary and in rapidly failing health. [46] Like Andropov, Chernenko ruled the country in the same way Brezhnev had. [27] Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) [47] 11 March 1985 24 August 1991
March 11 — Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary. [2] March 13 — Konstantin Chernenko was honored with a state funeral and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, he was the last person to be interred there.
The last five Soviet leaders (Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev) were all senior Secretaries before becoming First or General Secretaries. Additionally, Georgy Malenkov was briefly the leader of the Party for around a week after Stalin's death by virtue of being the top member of the ...
Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. At 54, Gorbachev was the youngest person since Joseph Stalin to become General Secretary and the country's first head of state born a Soviet citizen ...