Word: ideologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee, details of which subsequently surfaced in the Western press. On that occasion, Moscow Party Leader Boris Yeltsin, 56, a nonvoting member of the Politburo and a close Gorbachev ally, reportedly complained that bureaucratic foot dragging was frustrating his reform efforts in the capital and offered to resign. Politburo Ideologist Yegor Ligachev, 66, a leading conservative who has sought to restrain the pace of reform, replied with sharp criticism of Yeltsin's management. Yeltsin is expected to make a speech this week at a meeting of the Moscow party; whether or not he receives a vote of confidence from...
Yakovlev's elevation positions him to compete with Yegor Ligachev, 66, chief ideologist, for the post of No. 2 man in the party. "It will now be more difficult for Ligachev's office to interfere in the decisions of editors," said a Moscow journalist. Many intellectuals and Western diplomats believe Yakovlev may already have edged out Ligachev to become the party's unofficial "second secretary," a position of great power that is usually held by the chief ideologist...
...ZAIKOV, 62, the former Leningrad party boss who was already in the Secretariat, became a full member of the Politburo. Zaikov thus becomes one of the most powerful men in the country, along with Gorbachev and Party Ideologist Yegor Ligachev...
...regional administrator, Gorbachev caught the eye of two powerful patrons: Mikhail Suslov, who was for many years the Soviet Union's chief ideologist, and Yuri Andropov, longtime head of the KGB secret police. Suslov, who commanded partisan forces in the Stavropol area during World War II, kept tabs on promising young apparatchiks in the region. Andropov often vacationed at hot-springs resorts near Stavropol. Gorbachev in effect served as his host. Suslov and Andropov engineered Gorbachev's appointment to higher and higher posts in the regional party and, in 1978, his sudden call to Moscow as a member...
...some ways Gorbachev owes his rise to hometown connections. The future Soviet leader was born in 1931 in the fertile Stavropol region of southern Russia, where Yuri Andropov also was born and where Mikhail Suslov, the country's leading ideologist until his death in January 1982, had worked for several years. Gorbachev's first job was driving a tractor. In 1950 he made a significant leap forward by gaining entrance to Moscow State University. Admission is notoriously hard to win; unless a student is exceptionally talented, he needs family influence to enter. The farm boy apparently got his boost from...