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Kosygin retained his role as Kremlin spokesman on foreign affairs, although his position was much weakened by Brezhnev's expanded authority in the field. Kosygin had risen and survived by pursuing a technocrat's career. Dry even by Soviet standards, free of personal foibles or idiosyncrasies, he was so ascetic that in New York, his daughter Ludmilla, armed with a long shopping list of her own, could not think of anything to buy that her father would want or need...
...believed that Kosygin, out of self-preservation, deliberately chose to avoid the many intrigues and power plays in the Kremlin. Later on, Brezhnev pushed him still further aside, and several times Kosygin submitted his resignation to the Politburo. Although there was little rapport between the two men, Brezhnev turned these offers down and continued to pretend respect for Kosygin while in fact ignoring his views more and more. Once Brezhnev took command of foreign affairs, he edged Kosygin aside altogether and moved Gromyko from the role of mentor and confidant to that of co-architect...
When Henry Kissinger had begun his triangular diplomacy by secretly visiting Peking the year before, it was a shock to the Soviet leadership. Gromyko went about for weeks with a black expression. His deputy Makarov said that Brezhnev had given Gromyko a thorough dressing-down for not anticipating the American-Chinese rapprochement...
...following pages, TIME presents the first of two excerpts from Breaking with Moscow, carrying Shevchenko from his early days as a diplomat through his participation on the edges of the summit meeting between Brezhnev and Richard Nixon...
...office site favored by Gorbachev is symbolic of how authority has flowed away from the center of the regime during Chernenko's waning leadership, which in turn came after the truncated rule of Andropov and the final, enfeebled years of Leonid Brezhnev. Other branches of the Soviet system have also benefited, especially Andrei Gromyko's Foreign Ministry. Gromyko's increased standing in the Politburo under Chernenko has been widely noted, as has his unquestioned command of Soviet foreign policy. For that reason, Gromyko is regarded by some foreign diplomats as a possible candidate for Chernenko's job. Another factor...