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Eight hours earlier, Konstantin Chernenko, the leader of the Soviet Union, had died.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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With Chernenko clearly on his last legs, the struggle for succession pitted Gorbachev against older Brehznev intimates such as the Moscow party leader, Viktor Grishin.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Had any other Politburo member been chosen to succeed Chernenko in 1985, russia would undoubtedly have developed quite differently, at least for a while.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Eight hours earlier, Konstantin Chernenko, the leader of the Soviet Union, had died.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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But Andropov was dying of kidney disease, and Konstantin Chernenko, the Brezhnev acolyte who followed, was himself stricken with emphysema.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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This dutiful diplomat's wife was well placed to observe the politics and people of Russia from Stalin to Chernenko, says Rodric Braithwaite
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This dutiful diplomat's wife was well placed to observe the politics and people of Russia from Stalin to Chernenko, says Rodric Braithwaite
Book club, week three: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 2011
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Chernenko, Albert Konstantinovich (January 6, 1935 – April 11, 2009)
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This dutiful diplomat's wife was well placed to observe the politics and people of Russia from Stalin to Chernenko, says Rodric Braithwaite
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With Chernenko clearly on his last legs, the struggle for succession pitted Gorbachev against older Brehznev intimates such as the Moscow party leader, Viktor Grishin.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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