Word: kirilenko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been "relieved of his duties" on the Politburo "in connection with retirement on health grounds." The change was not unexpected. There had been rumors that Romanov is being treated for alcoholism in a sanatorium. It was the first direct demotion from the Central Committee's policymaking body since Andrei Kirilenko, then 76, retired in 1982, also for health reasons...
...MAJOR FORCES in the Politburo are not young men. Andropov is 68, Konstantin Chernenko 71, Andrei Kirilenko 76 and Andrei Gromyko 73. In the not-too-distant future, a younger generation that did not live through the horrors of the war will take over. Despite the constraints of the Soviet system, these leaders might well be interested in improving the lot of their people--if only out of necessity. Growing labor unrest and dissidence within the Soviet Union have till now been successfully held in check, but history suggests the country will not stagnate forever. As Goldman puts...
...death last January of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 79, lowered the count by one, and last week, as the nation's attention was focused on Brezhnev's funeral, it was rumored that longtime Party Disciplinarian Arvid Pelshe, 83, had also died. If Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, is on the way out, as the cold reception he was accorded at the Tammany Hall, Soviet-Style
...Premier, Nikolai Tikhonov, 77, a man with more experience in government than in the party apparatus, or the widely traveled and urbane Central Committee Secretary Konstantin Rusakov, 72, who lacks a vital prerequisite: Politburo membership. One contender seems to be on the way out. Party Secretary Andrei Kirilenko, 76, used to be Brezhnev's understudy, but apparently lost out on a chance for the starring role because he is in poor health or political disgrace. But the new man could have cause for concern about the ambitions of tough Ukrainian Party Boss Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 64. Half a dozen others...
...Western analyst: "He's only served in one part of the country, dealing with one issue. His party and functional bases are very narrow." But as a member of the Party Secretariat as well as a full member of the Politburo, an overlapping of posts matched only by Kirilenko, Chernenko and Andropov, seasoning could favor Gorbachev next time around...