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	Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tseka", was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
		The Central Committee also made a landmark decision in March 1985 when it elected the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev as the next General Secretary of CPSU with the margin of just one vote more than the hardliner Viktor Grishin.
		Following the failed coup of August 1991, the Central Committee was dissolved as was the Communist Party itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_CPSU (462 words)

	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary in 1953-1966) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin's death in 1924.
		From 1934 on, Stalin increasingly preferred to sign documents as just "Secretary of the Central Committee" and there are no official references to the post between the XIXth Party Congress in October 1952 and Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, but there was never any doubt that he remained in charge.
		When the leadership of the Central Committee was restructured at the time of Stalin's death, the office of the General Secretary remained unoccupied, but two senior Politburo members, Georgy Malenkov (the new prime minister) and Nikita Khruschev, were included in the Secretariat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_CPSU (477 words)

	Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich - MSN Encarta
		In 1966 Gorbachev was promoted to first secretary of the Stavropol city committee of the CPSU and in 1968 to second secretary of the party committee of Stavropol Territory.
		Suslov had served as first secretary of the Stavropol Territory committee of the CPSU in the 1940s; Andropov was a native of the area and often took holidays there.
		Following Chernenko’s death, Gorbachev quickly won the endorsement of the Politburo and Central Committee and was appointed general secretary of the CPSU—and thus the new leader of the Soviet Union—on March 11, 1985.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552563/Gorbachev_Mikhail_Sergeyevich.html (797 words)

	Yuri Andropov
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (June 15, 1914 - February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 to February 9, 1984.
		He graduated to the full party in 1939 and was first secretary of the Komsomol in the Karelo-Finnish Republic from 1940 to 1944.
		A few days after Brezhnev's death (November 10, 1982), Andropov was the surprise appointment to General Secretary over Chernenko, he was the first head of the KGB to become General Secretary.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/yu/Yuri_Andropov.html (336 words)

	Struggle for Seccession from the Az.SSR
		The Perestroyka declared by the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev laid the grounds for liberalization of the political regime in the USSR.
		However, the CPSU Central Committee adopted a resolution on February 21, which essentially contradicted to the international principle of people’s self-determination: the central authorities tried to substitute political resolution of the problem with social and economic measures.
		Realizing that the central authorities were not to take action to stop the genocide of the Armenian population, the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, which was formed in 1989 as a opposition party, with the silent consent of the official authorities organized an armed assault on the Armenian villages of Shahumian and Khanlar regions.
	nkr.am /eng/history/borba.htm (2132 words)

	Leonid Brezhnev, 1906-1982
		In 1950 he was sent to Moldavia as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party with the task of sovietizing the Romanian population of that recently conquered territory.
		When Stalin died (March 1953), Brezhnev lost his posts on the Central Committee and in the Politburo and had to accept the position of deputy head of the political department of the Ministry of Defense with the rank of lieutenant general.
		Brezhnev was soon promoted to first secretary of the Kazakstan Communist Party (1955), and in 1956 he was reelected to his posts on the CPSU Central Committee and in the Politburo.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/brezhnev.html (862 words)

	Gorbachev - MSN Encarta
		In April 1970, having been recommended to CPSU general secretary Leonid Brezhnev by Kulakov (then a member of the Soviet leadership), Gorbachev became first secretary of the Stavropol’ Territory CPSU committee, the youngest regional first secretary in the Soviet Union.
		In addition to Kulakov, Gorbachev enjoyed the confidence of Mikhail Suslov, who served as senior secretary for ideology of the CPSU, and of Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, or State Security Committee).
		Suslov had served as first secretary of the Stavropol’ Territory committee of the CPSU in the 1940s; Andropov was a native of the area and often vacationed there.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761552563 (813 words)

	Joint Statement on the Soviet-United States Summit Meeting
		The President and the General Secretary reaffirmed the continued commitment of the United States and the Soviet Union to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and in particular to strengthening the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
		The President and the General Secretary expressed support for international cooperation in nuclear safety and for efforts to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, under further strengthened IAEA safeguards and appropriate export controls for nuclear materials, equipment and technology.
		The President and the General Secretary agreed that official contacts at all levels should be further expanded and intensified, with the goal of achieving practical and concrete results in all areas of the U.S.-Soviet relationship.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1987/121087a.htm (2654 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: KGB's 1967 Annual Report
		At the present time, the Committee is examining a number of proposals from the CCs of Communist Parties of the Union Republics, area [krai] and regional [oblast'] party committees forwarded during 1967 to create KGB offices in other cities and districts where this is dictated by interests of state security.
		Implementing the instructions of the CC CPSU, the Committee of State Security carried out a set of measures aimed at increasing the struggle with the anti-Soviet activities of the Chinese splitters [raskolniki] and at ensuring the reliable protection of the borders of the USSR with the PRC.
		The Committee deems necessary first of all to attract the most promising workers from the periphery to the central apparatus of the KGB and the apparats of the republican committees of state security, as part of the process of retraining and promotion.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/21/documents/kgb.report (4423 words)

	Joint Statement Following the Soviet-United States Summit Meeting in Moscow
		Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, met in Moscow May 29 - June 2, 1988.
		Attending on the Soviet side were Members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, Andrei A. Gromyko; Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR Eduard A.
		The President and the General Secretary, recognizing the importance of their personal involvement in the development of relations in the months ahead, instructed Secretary of State Shultz and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze to meet as necessary and to report to them on ways to ensure continued practical progress across the full range of issues.
	www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1988/060188b.htm (3974 words)

	Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gorbachev resigned on Aug. 24 as the general secretary of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), a post which only two days earlier he had appeared unwilling to renounce; the party's activities were suspended and its central committee dissolved.
		Mr Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, general secretary of the central committee of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU) since Feb. 13, 1984, Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces, and President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i.
		It was officially announced on Nov. 11, 1982, that Mr Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (CPSU), a Soviet Marshal and Supreme Commander of the Soviet Armed Forces, and the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (i.
	www.keesings.com /hot_topics/ussr (1104 words)

	Pravda.RU:Vitali Cherkasov: 15th anniversary of the nuclear disaster. Sores of Chernobyl
		Vladimir Vasiljevich Scherbitski, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), spent that day in the city of Dnepropetrovsk.
		The Central Committee fraternity either was afraid to upset their "celestial" or deliberately exposed him to the Muscovites, but a queer thing happened, a scandalously miserable one.
		He and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kazakhstan Communist Party Kunayev were the first candidates to play the part of sacrifice bulls.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2001/04/26/4220_.html (1801 words)

	[Leaders' Writings]
		Decisions of the 24th CPSU Congress--a programme of action for the Soviet trade unions; speech by Comrade L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, at the 15th Congress of the Trade Unions of the USSR, 1972.
		Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, delivered by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, March 30, 1971.
		Democratization--the essence of perestroika, the essence of socialism: a meeting at the CPSU Central Committee with the heads of the mass media, ideological institutions and artistic union, January 8, 1988.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~martin11/leaders.html (7368 words)

	Brezhnev - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		In 1952 he was rewarded for his service to the party by his election as a candidate, or nonvoting, member of the party’s newly expanded Presidium (formerly Politburo), the Soviet Union’s highest decision-making body.
		When Khrushchev became first secretary (later called general secretary) of the CPSU later that year, he made Brezhnev deputy and then first secretary of the party apparatus in the Kazakh SSR (present-day Kazakhstan).
		He also served as the Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet space and missile program.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761551585___3/Brezhnev.html (386 words)

	Soviet Leader's Temperaments
		Chairman of KGB 1967-82, General Secretary of the CPSU 1982-84, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Head of State), 1973-84 Member of the Politiburo.
		General Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of USSR Supreme Soviet (Head of State) 1984-5, full member of the Politiburo 1978-85.
		General Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Presidium of USSR Supreme Soviet (Head of State) 1985-91, full member of the Politiburo 1978-85.
	keirsey.com /soviet.html (251 words)

	Wikinfo \| Konstantin Chernenko
		After work in the regions, he was called to Moscow in 1960 and promoted under the aegis of Leonid Brezhnev, becoming a candidate member of the Central Committee in 1966 and a full member in 1971.
		Even when he became General Secretary, he continued to sign papers, although thanks to Soviet bureaucracy his signature meant little more than it did in his previous position.
		Border Guard, Party Secretary of Border Guard Unit, Agitprop director in Krasnoyarsk and other regions, Party functionary (apparatchik), Central Committee member and secretary, Politburo member, Supreme Soviet Presidium member, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, General Secretary of the CPSU.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Konstantin_Chernenko (783 words)

	Central Asian History, Part 2
		Central Asian uprising in protest over conscription into labor units of the Russian army, resulting in the slaughter of many Kazakhs by the Russians.
		The National Delimitation of Soviet Central Asia results in the abolition of the Turkestan ASSR, the Bukharan SSR, and the Khorezmian SSR and the establishment of the Turkmen SSR, the Uzbek SSR, and the Tajik ASSR (as part of the Uzbek SSR).
		Mikhail Gorbachev is appointed as General Secretary of the CPSU.
	www.oxuscom.com /cahist2.htm (1949 words)

	Unknown Troops of the Vanished Superpower
		Otherwise, at a meeting of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo in April 1960, the chairman of the State Committee for Aviation Equipment, P.V. Dementyev5, and aircraft designer A.I. Mikoyan6 would not have stated that there is no aircraft in the world that could fly at an altitude of 20,000 meters for 6 hours 48 minutes.
		To Kisunko's objection that he had been approved by the CPSU Central Committee and that Pleshakov had exceeded his authority, the minister replied that he had coordinated with the Central Committee on this matter.
		From January 1977 chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces--first deputy minister of defense of the USSR.
	www.fas.org /spp/starwars/program/soviet/jpuma036_94003.htm (8606 words)

	[Non-Harvard Documents]
		Speech made by Erich Honecker, First Secretary of the SED Central Committee, at the 10th Congress of the German-Soviet Friendship Society, in Dresden on 11-12 May 1974.
		NOTES: Concluding speech of N. Khrushchev at 21st CPSU Congress on February 5.-Resolution of the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the report of comrade N. Khrushchev "Control Figures for the Economic Development of the USSR in 1959-65".-Target figures for economic development of the USSR from 1959 to 1965.
		The 27th CPSU Congress: discussions and decisions: review of documents adopted by the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~martin11/DocN.html (9651 words)

	[ www.RegionalAnalysis.org ]
		It was on the strength of that reputation as a capable and energetic economic manager that former KGB Chairman Yurii Andropov brought Aliyev to Moscow in November 1982 to serve as a first deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.
		At a Central Committee plenum in November 1987, Aliyev was dismissed "on health grounds" and expelled from the Politburo.
		As for the loss to his country, the Internet publication zerkalo.az observed on 13 December that it is impossible to underestimate the impact of the news of his death on generations of Azerbaijanis for whom he epitomized everything positive Azerbaijan has achieved during their lifetime.
	www.regionalanalysis.org /publications/regionalvoices/en/2003/12/E7A7D495-73F3-4499-9D71-F9CD24315385.ASP (1032 words)

	To the Geneva Summit: Perestroika and the Transformation of U.S.-Soviet Relations
		On March 11, 1985, the Politburo of the USSR Communist Party Central Committee elected Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev as its new General Secretary.
		Gorbachev used his position as General Secretary to bring in officials who shared his worldview as key advisers and promoted them to the Central Committee and the Politburo.
		Generally, Gorbachev's remarks here are very cautious, because he is speaking to a wider audience than the Politburo, and still they are less ideological than might be expected in his analysis of U.S.-Soviet relations.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB172/index.htm (3549 words)

	Soviet-Empire.com - Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich
		He was a poor choice as General Secretary, as he was suffering from chronic emphysema and was 72 years old at the time of his election.
		This was followed by his election as a Central Committee secretary, a Politburo candidate member and in 1978, full member of the Politburo.
		Chernenko was elected General Secretary, despite his doctor's warning that he was too sick for the job.
	www.soviet-empire.com /ussr/ussr_leaders/chernenko.php (1507 words)

	CNN Cold War - First Draft: Pravda
		A group of well-known American scientists and public figures have sent a telegram to Yuri V. Andropov, general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, containing an appeal for a ban on space weapons.
		The implementation of this Soviet proposal, for which an overwhelming majority of U.N. member states voted, would mean that a reliable barrier would be put in the way of attempts to turn space into a source of mortal danger to the people.
		Unfortunately, work on the draft of such a treaty in the Committee on Disarmament has, in essence, not yet begun, owing to the position of the U.S. and number of other NATO states.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/1st.draft/pravda.html (826 words)

	Wikinfo \| Central Committee of the CPSU
		The Central Committee was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
		After Stalin's death, there was a period of collective leadership, which briefly revitalised the Committee before it was returned to its compliant role.
		Following the failed coup of August 1991, the Central Committee was dissolved.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Central_Committee_of_the_CPSU (310 words)

	Tributes
		I appreciated the fact that after seventy years of persecutions suffered by the Church and the faithful, the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee acknowledged the mistakes made in regard to the Church and the faithful in the 1930s and the following years in an open conversation with the clergy.
		Mikhail Gorbachev told us that plans on introduction of a law on the freedom of conscience were under way, and that the law was to reflect the interests of religious organizations.
		The UNESCO General Assembly proclaimed this date to be a significant event in European history, and in the world history and culture as well.
	www.mikhailgorbachev.org /tributes/metropolitanjuvenaly.html (583 words)

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