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...question was whether the septuagenarians in the Politburo would choose the top man from their own ranks or would boldly pick a younger man. The two likeliest young candidates: Grigori Romanov, 61, and Mikhail Gorbachev, 52. With few clues to go on, Kremlin watchers seized on the appointment of Konstantin Chernenko, 72, a onetime Brezhnev protégé, to head the funeral committee as an indication that the old guard had triumphed. Although Andropov had been chosen for the same position when Brezhnev died, the signal was not as clear this time. As Andropov's nominal deputy, Chernenko was the logical...
Should the Soviet leadership opt for age over youth, there was always standby Candidate Konstantin Chernenko, 72, who took Andropov's place on the Lenin Mausoleum during the military parade through Red Square in November and was named chairman of Andropov's funeral committee last week. Chernenko worked his way to positions on the Politburo and the Secretariat largely by serving as an aide to Leonid Brezhnev, and he was thought to have been his boss's hand-picked heir. But he lost out, probably when the military and party colleagues decided to back Andropov. Since then, Chernenko has given...
...prospects do not look good for any sort of improvement in the near future, especially since any of Andropov's possible successors are firmly indoctrinated with party politics, or what now passes for Marxist-Leninist ideology Konstantin U. Chernenko, the odds-on favorite, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Grigory V. Romanov, or any of the other party bigwigs who may fill Andropov's spot will probably serve as the front-man for the ruling Politburo at least for several years. As with the past five Soviet rulers, power consolidation will undoubtedly come slowly...
...noted last week, this is "a time for caution;" the Soviet leaders will be jockeying amongst each other for position and in the next week or so, the Kremlin will have a new leader. The choices range from younger, more worldly candidates like Mikhail Gorbaschev to the more conservative Konstantin Chernenko and Grigory V. Romanov, but speculation also includes the hawkish Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, who seems singlehandedly to have masterminded much of Russia's military buildup Further, Ustinov is one of the major power-brokers in the Politburo and is likely to influence heavily the choice of Andropov...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History, said that the naming of Konstantin Chernenko as temporary leader was a good sign for Soviet-U.S. relations because he has experience in foreign affairs unlike Gorbachev and is moderate as opposed to Romanov. "If they were to choose a hard-liner like Romanov--whose main concern is security--we'd have a problem...