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...three weeks since Konstantin Chernenko succeeded Yuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union, U.S. policymakers and Kremlinologists have peered closely East and West for portents of hope. Last week they thought they detected several encouraging signs of Soviet movement on arms control...
...Communist Party since 1932, he publicly denounced dissident Soviet writers, including fellow Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who in turn charged Sholokhov with having plagiarized large sections of And Quiet Flows the Don from a lesser-known Cossack writer. Sholokhov's obituary was signed by Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko and other top officials...
...spin. In the past couple of weeks, the press has stood chest-high in choices. In Lebanon: one more last battle for Beirut; the disintegration of the Gemayel government; the pull-out of the U.S. Marines. In the Soviet Union: the death of Yuri Andropov and the succession of Konstantin Chernenko; a funeral in red. In Iowa: the small beginnings of an American presidential election; the first funny hats and toots of the horns. In Sarajevo: one more Winter Olympics done; memories on videotape; the ice dancers Torvill and Dean synchronized, as if accidentally, like birds in a wind. Four...
...spite of a reputation for keeping out of the public eye, Konstantin Chernenko made a collection of his essays and speeches, and has published 15 of them. Many of the pieces were prepared for specific occasions. Taken as a whole, however, the selection offers a fascinating picture of the corporate Soviet mind. Except for a page-long personal history, included in the preface at the publisher's request, Chernenko's book presents an almost disembodied, albeit forceful, expression of Communist Party orthodoxy. It serves as an interesting guidebook to the official Soviet position on matters both practical...
Today more than half of the Soviet Union's 274 million citizens are under 30. Had the Politburo selected one of its younger members to lead the country, young Soviets might have seen a sign that someone was trying to bridge the generation gap. Konstantin Chernenko, however, strikes the young not only as a typically uninspiring ideologue of the old school, but also as uncharacteristically voluble in decrying the youth culture brought in from the West. Only last June, Chernenko delivered a jeremiad to the Central Committee contending that "our enemy is trying to exploit for its ends...