Word: ideologists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women organizing the neighborhood committees, the committees for the defense of the revolution, she saw women carrying guns, and alphabetization manuals, she saw women working in their homes and in the factories...And yet the national hero, the national director, the national leader, the national army chief, the national ideologist, the national eye to survey the state-- all were male...
Fedorenko told me what happened next. Mikhail Suslov and Alexei Kosygin were the prime movers against Khrushchev. Suslov seemed satisfied to be the party patriarch and main ideologist. Kosygin was happy to be Chairman of the Council of Ministers and play the major role in both domestic economic and foreign policies. But it was hard for them to agree on who should be First Secretary of the Central Committee...
Khrushchev said on another occasion, "Andrei Andreyevich is an excellent diplomat and tactician; he knows negotiations from A to Z. But as an ideologist and theoretician he's rather poor. He has little taste for theorizing. But we're working on him. We'll make something...
...Andropov's influence with the Kremlin's inner circle grew. In May 1982, Andropov was relieved of his position as head of the KGB and promoted to the spot on the party's powerful Central Committee Secretariat that had been left vacant by the death of Ideologist Mikhail Suslov. It was seen as a move to "launder" Andropov for the top party post. When Brezhnev died six months later, Andropov had lined up enough support to beat back the challenge of Konstantin Chernenko, who was widely believed to be Brezhnev's personal choice for the post...
...official Tass news agency yesterday announced Andropov will be buried Tuesday in Red Square, and said party ideologist Konstantin Chemenko would head the funeral commission...