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...young party chief's reputation pleased two important spa guests: Mikhail Suslov, then the chief Soviet ideologist, and KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, both austere figures disgusted by the corruption of the Brezhnev era. When Kulakov died in 1978, he left vacant the position of Communist Party Central Committee Secretary in charge of agriculture. To fill it, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, presumably acting on the advice of Suslov and Andropov, chose a man he had evidently met only recently: Gorbachev. That meeting occurred on Sept. 19, 1978, at the tiny railroad station in Mineralnye Vody, where Brezhnev's train stopped...
...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...