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| | Brad Cox, Ph.D. |
 | | When Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, he had done little to distinguish himself from his comrades in the Central Committee or later in the Politburo. |
 | | In July 1985, soon after Gorbachev's election as General Secretary, he is said to have persuaded Andrei Gromyko, the oldest member of the Politburo and the most enduring foreign minister in the Soviet Union, to step down and take the largely ceremonial post of President of the USSR. |
 | | One big difference between the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 1956, where Khrushchev gave his "secret" report, and this conference is that the earlier meeting was a _delegated_ body that represented the Party as a whole. |
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