Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. That Soviet Union included all of the territory of modern Ukraine. Putin aspires to recapture it. His vision is a Russia restored to a status comparable to that ...

In threatening to walk away from efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the US president is ignoring crucial lessons about the consequences of appeasement.

A few years before the disintegration of the Soviet Empire in 1989—when deep cracks had begun to appear in the Kremlin—Soviet General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko—who led between Andropov ...

In March 1985, when Rajiv Gandhi went to Moscow for the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, he met the leader’s ...

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Yuri Andropov lasted just over a year in the Kremlin before dying of total kidney failure aged 69, while his replacement Konstantin Chernenko governed largely from a hospital bed. Aged 73 ...

He says he will do his best to co-operate. Konstantin Chernenko, the son of Siberian peasants, was named general secretary of the Soviet Communist party today, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov in ...

Joe Biden is America’s Konstantin Chernenko – Konstantin Chernenko was a loyal, steadfast member of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. A drab, stern man by bearing, Chernenko was 72 year ...

The video illustrates the song's Cold War-themed lyrics quite literally, with Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Konstantin Chernenko going one on one in a WWE-style fight that concludes with ...

Despatched to Moscow for the Morning Star when the forgettable Konstantin Chernenko led the Soviet Union, within three weeks Mikhail Gorbachev was at the helm and she found herself having to navigate ...