“You won’t believe it, but he’s dead too!” went a joke with black humour that circulated in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1985. “He” was Konstantin Chernenko, elected just a year earlier to the post of General Secretary of the CPSu. His passing closed a three-year period that had seen Michail Suslov, Leonid brezhnev and Jurij andropov die in quick succession. indeed, his role in Soviet politics was far greater than the thirteen months at the top of the Kremlin. very close to brezhnev, for over twenty years Chernenko headed the General affairs section, the heart of the Central Committee. reserved and spartan, from his youth in Siberia, then in Moldova and eventually in Moscow, he spent his entire life in the Party organisation, playing a key role in consolidating its role to the point of becoming in the russian-Soviet and international imagination the type figure of the apparatchik.
Černenko, l’uomo dell’apparato.
andrea giannotti
2024-01-01
Abstract
“You won’t believe it, but he’s dead too!” went a joke with black humour that circulated in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1985. “He” was Konstantin Chernenko, elected just a year earlier to the post of General Secretary of the CPSu. His passing closed a three-year period that had seen Michail Suslov, Leonid brezhnev and Jurij andropov die in quick succession. indeed, his role in Soviet politics was far greater than the thirteen months at the top of the Kremlin. very close to brezhnev, for over twenty years Chernenko headed the General affairs section, the heart of the Central Committee. reserved and spartan, from his youth in Siberia, then in Moldova and eventually in Moscow, he spent his entire life in the Party organisation, playing a key role in consolidating its role to the point of becoming in the russian-Soviet and international imagination the type figure of the apparatchik.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
