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	Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich - MSN Encarta
		Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich (1914-1984), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between 1982 and 1984.
		Andropov went to Moscow in 1951 and served as ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957.
		Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, a Brezhnev loyalist.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567529/Andropov_Yuri_Vladimirovich.html (392 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.
		Following Stalin's death in March 1953 Andropov was demoted and 'exiled' to the Soviet Embassy in Budapest by Malenkov.
		Andropov returned to Moscow to head the Department for Liaison with Socialist Countries (1957 - 1967) and was promoted to the Central Committee Secretariat in 1962, succeeding Mikhail Suslov[?], and in 1967 he was appointed head of the KGB.
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	Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov - Encyclopedia.com
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 1914-84, Soviet Communist leader (1982-84).
		Andropov died of kidney disease in Feb., 1984, after a tenure of only 15 months.
		Although he was a hardliner, Andropov was responsible for the rise to power of a group of younger, more liberal officials, including Mikhail Gorbachev.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Andropov.html (507 words)

	Yuri Andropov - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June 2379 B.C. – February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician who was General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just sixteen months later.
		Yuri was made General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982, when fellow geezer Brezhnev (over 6,000 years old) died.
		Andropov died happily in his sleep on February 9, 1984 and was interred in the Kremlin alongside Soviet greats such as Lenin and Stalin.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Yuri_Andropov (312 words)

	Yuri Andropov - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June 2379 B.C. – February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician who was General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just sixteen months later.
		Yuri was made General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1982, when fellow geezer Brezhnev (over 6,000 years old) died.
		Andropov died happily in his sleep on February 9, 1984 and was interred in the Kremlin alongside Soviet greats such as Lenin and Stalin.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Yuri_Andropov (300 words)

	Yuri Andropov at AllExperts
		Andropov was the son of a railway official and was probably born in Nagutskoye, Stavropol Guberniya, Imperial Russia.
		Andropov was one of those responsible for the Soviet decision to invade Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
		Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a humane reformer, especially in comparison to the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.
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	Information About Yuri Andropov (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов), (June 2 (O.S) = June 15 (N.S), 1914 - February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death.
		Following Stalin's death in March 1953, Andropov was demoted and "exiled" to the Soviet Embassy in Budapest by Georgy Malenkov.
		Andropov returned to Moscow to head the Department for Liaison with Socialist Countries (1957-1967) and was promoted to the Central Committee Secretariat in 1962, succeeding Mikhail Suslov, and in 1967 he was appointed head of the KGB.
	www.carolansrealestate.com /yuri_andropov.html (512 words)

	Yuri Andropov Summary
		Andropov was the son of a railway official and was probably born in Nagutskoye, Stavropol Guberniya, Imperial Russia.
		Andropov was one of those responsible for the Soviet decision to invade Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
		Despite Andropov's hard-line stance in Hungary and the numerous banishments and intrigues for which he was responsible during his long tenure as head of the KGB, he has become widely regarded by many commentators as a humane reformer, especially in comparison to the stagnation and corruption during the later years of his predecessor, Leonid Brezhnev.
	www.bookrags.com /Yuri_Andropov (1936 words)

	What About the Soviets? page5.html
		In 1967 Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov is appointed head of the KGB, the intelligence agency, started in 1954 and an equivalent to the CIA in the United States and M15 in Britain.
		Andropov died on 9 February 1984, at age 69, of acute kidney failure, Chernenko becomes General Secretary, to be followed by Mikhail Gorbachev.
		A serious warning to such politicians was voiced in the Statement of Yuri Andropov of September 29, 1983.
	www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com /page5.html (2412 words)

	ANDROPOV, Yuri Vladimirovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Andropov was born near Stavropol and became an official of the Young Communist League (Komsomol) in the late 1930s.
		In 1951 Andropov became a party official in Moscow, and he subsequently was a diplomat in Hungary, serving as Soviet ambassador during the revolt there against Communist rule in 1956.
		Shortly after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in late 1982, Andropov succeeded him as the Communist party’s general secretary.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=201050 (536 words)

	Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		As for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, I cant say he was a careerist...result of this training, Vladimir Vladimirovich was assigned to KGB representation...
		Andropov had what some of his staff called a...caught the eye of the ambassador, Yuri Andropov, by his uncompromising opposition to...
		ANDROPOV, YURI VLADIMIROVICH yoo re vl dye miravich ndro pof...Party on Brezhnevs death in Nov., 1982.
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	Yuri Andropov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов), (June 2 (O.S. June 15 (N.S. – February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just sixteen months later.
		Following Stalin's death in March 1953, Andropov was demoted and "exiled" to the Soviet Embassy in Budapest by Georgy Malenkov.
		Andropov died of kidney failure on February 9, 1984, after several months of failing health, and was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Yuri_Andropov (876 words)

	Yuri Andropov
		Andropov's legacy remains the subject of much debate within Russia, and elsewhere, both amongst scholars and in the popular media.
		Certainly generally regarded as more gradual in reform, by inclination, than Gorbachev, the bulk of the speculation centres around whether Andropov would have reformed the USSR in a manner which did not result in its eventual destruction.
		The short time he spent as leader, much of it in a state of extreme frailty, leaves debaters few concrete indications as to the nature of any hypothetical extended rule.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/y/yu/yuri_andropov.html (513 words)

	Andropov Article - Print Version
		Andropov's accession to power last November was accompanied by a corresponding ennoblement of his image.
		Soon there were reports that Andropov was a man of extraordinary accomplishment, with some interests and proclivities that are unusual in a former head of the K.G.B. According to an article in The Washington Post, Andropov "is fond of cynical political jokes with an antiregime twist....
		According to The Washington Post, Yuri Andropov is "a perfect host." On some occasions, he would invite "leading dissidents to his home for well-lubricated discussions that sometimes extended to the wee hours of the morning," after which he would send his guests home in his own chauffeured car.
	www.edwardjayepstein.com /archived/andropov_print.htm (2361 words)

	Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In May, 1982, he resigned his KGB post; he succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the Communist Party on Brezhnev’s death in Nov., 1982.
		Andropov died of kidney disease in Feb., 1984, after a tenure of only 15 months.
		Although he was a hardliner, Andropov was responsible for the rise to power of a group of younger, more liberal officials, including Mikhail Gorbachev.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/Andropov.html (244 words)

	CNN Cold War - Profile: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
		Following Stalin's death (March 1953) Andropov was demoted to Budapest as a counselor in the Soviet Embassy (1953) but promoted to ambassador to Hungary in 1954.
		Andropov cabled a request for Soviet military assistance to Moscow from Erno Gero, first secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party.
		Andropov returned to Moscow to head the newly created Central Committee Department for Liaison with Socialist Countries (1957-1967), was elevated to the Central Committee Secretariat (1962) and was appointed head of the KGB in May 1967.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/andropov (454 words)

	The Andropov Hoax
		Andropov's accession to power last November was accompanied by a corresponding ennoblement of his image.
		Soon there were reports that Andropov was a man of extraordinary accomplishment, with some interests and proclivities that are unusual in a former head of the K.G.B. According to an article in The Washington Post, Andropov "is fond of cynical political jokes with an antiregime twist....
		According to The Washington Post, Yuri Andropov is "a perfect host." On some occasions, he would invite "leading dissidents to his home for well-lubricated discussions that sometimes extended to the wee hours of the morning," after which he would send his guests home in his own chauffeured car.
	edwardjayepstein.com /archived/andropov.htm (2327 words)

	TIME Person of the Year: Story Archive Since 1927, Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov
		Andropov is the consummate Communist Party operative, a nearly faceless toiler in the political establishment of the U.S.S.R. all his adult life, head for 15 years of that quintessentially Soviet organization the KGB, a man who attained power by sophisticated backstage maneuvering in the ingrown, secretive Politburo.
		Andropov has put much less of a personal stamp on foreign policy, and on the minds of his adversaries, and on the minds of his adversaries, than Reagan.
		Andropov, in the judgment of Richard Nixon, could be "the most formidable and dangerous adversary" of any recent Soviet leader, but also "the best one with whom the U.S. could develop a live-and-let-live relationship." Says Nixon: "He is not, like Khrushchev, controlled by his emotions.
	www.time.com /time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1983.html (8134 words)

	Yuri Andropov
		Yuri Andropov, the son of a railway official, was born in Nagutskoye, in the Soviet Union.
		Andropov attempted to introduce a series of reforms but he died in 1984 before he could complete his programme.
		Andropov's tough, and sometimes exaggerated, attitude to these problems instilled hope that an end would at last be put to all the outrageous practices, that those who had alienated themselves from the people would be held responsible.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDandropov.htm (540 words)

	Only Trotskyism Can Defend the Gains of October
		In 1982 and in the capital city of American imperialism the "Yuri Andropov Brigade" was not to be taken by anybody (not even your goodselves) as a symbol of capitulation to imperialism or oppressor of proletarian uprisings.
		Andropov is known as a decisive and efficient administrator who used the KGB not only to persecute dissidents but to fight crime and corruption in the highest levels of the bureaucracy, including Brezhnev’s immediate family.
		You can’t have it both ways—either Andropov was a big improvement over Stalin and was capable of effectively organizing the defense of the USSR or he was qualitatively the same as Stalin and was, therefore, in the final analysis, an obstacle to the defense of the Soviet degenerated workers state.
	www.bolshevik.org /TB/TB1_ALL.html (11060 words)

	Soviet-Empire.com - Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich
		Andropov tells subordinates "Khrushchev was not removed because of his criticism of Stalin's cult of personality and his policy of peaceful coexistence.
		Ustinov nominates Andropov as General Secretary and the majority is in favor.
		Andropov agrees that writers should be given some freedom but also argues that literature has the duty to help the Party and state in its struggle for order.
	www.soviet-empire.com /ussr/ussr_leaders/andropov.php (809 words)

	The Cold War Museum - Yuri Andropov
		Yuri Andropov was born 1914 in Nagutskoye near Stavropol in southern Russia (Mikhail Gorbachev was born in the same area).
		When the Hungarian revolution began in 1956 and Hungary left the Warsaw pact, Andropov played an important role in coordinating the Soviet invasion that violently crushed the opposition.
		After his return to Moscow in 1957 he rapidly advanced in the hierarchy and was made head of the KGB 1967.
	www.coldwar.org /articles/80s/yuri_andropov.asp (248 words)

	ANDROPOV
		Andropov has a splendid collection of antique maps and prints of all parts of the world, and a nice range of antique books and reference literature.
		Yuri Andropov, the son of a railway official, was born in Nagutskoye, Andropov attempted to introduce a series of reforms but he died in 1984 before he
		THE ANDROPOV FILE The Life and Ideas of Yuri V. Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party Within 54 hours, he was replaced by Yuri V. Andropov.
	seo.investray.com /andropov.html (547 words)

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