Andropov and his cruel regime scandalously denied and tried to cover up the dirty deed, but Ronald Reagan, his National Security Adviser Bill Clark, and his administration blew the whistle on ...

Andropov decided to put an end to this, too, and thousands of police and KGB agents swooped on shops, hairdressers, bath-houses, metro stations, cinemas, beer joints - the whole place crawled with ...

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov: the refined, bespoke-suit-wearing, tennis-loving, single-malt-scotch-sipping, terrible-poetry-writing head of the K.G.B.; Brezhnev’s successor at the helm of power ...

Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic ...

Yury Andropov died 25 years ago today, on February 9, 1984, after ruling the Soviet Union for just 15 months. His spirit, however, is very much alive in the current Russian elite. In fact, few ...

And Andropov, when he became Soviet leader in November 1982 after Leonid Brezhnev's death, sought to introduce more effective management, stricter discipline, ...

Among the old coverage that's being hauled out in the wake of Dutch's demise is this Time story explaining why Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov (!) were ...

On Sept. 18, 2017, a hero of humanity, Stanislav Petrov, died. Hero of humanity is a mild description for Petrov. On Sept. 26, 1983, Soviet air defense officer, Stanislav Petrov, was on duty at a ...

Members of Vladimir Putin's inner circle have long viewed Yury Andropov's brief rule as the path not taken, the great "what if," the missed opportunity. They also saw Andropov's vision of ...

Smith proudly holds the letter she received back from Andropov, telling her of his desire for peace. Bettmann Archive “There were TV crews from England, Australia, Germany, and Bulgaria.

As Andropov had proposed in his letter, at the centre of Samantha’s Soviet tour was an extended visit to the children’s camp Artek, on the Crimean peninsula.