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Chernenko followed Brezhnev in 1956 to fill a similar propaganda post in the CPSU Central Committee in Moscow. In 1960 after Brezhnev was named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (titular head of state of the Soviet Union), Chernenko became his chief of staff. In 1964 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, and succeeded by ...
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]
Konstantin Chernenko ... In June 1960, at the zenith of de-Stalinization, the USSR denounced the People's Republic of Albania as a politically backward country for ...
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 ...
Of the eleven individuals appointed head of state, three died in office of natural causes (Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko), one held the position in a temporary role (Vasily Kuznetsov), and four held posts of party leader and head of state simultaneously (Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev).
15 March 1953 – 7 May 1960 4 Viktoria Brezhneva (née Denisova) ... Anna Chernenko (née Lyubimova) Konstantin Chernenko: 11 April 1984 – 10 March 1985 10
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
Konstantin Chernenko ... In 1960 and 1961, the Afghan Army, on the orders of Daoud Khan following his policy of Pashtun irredentism, ...