One of the oddest sights one can see in Moscow’s Red Square, aside from the artificially preserved and no longer even quite ...

“As Gorbachev’s presidency unfolded, it became clear that he was not going to be like the dour and geriatric Leonid Brezhnev, Yury Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko,” wrote Rose ...

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 ...

1966-Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out 1985-Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader 2011-9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles ...

What is it about Washington liberals and Democratic leaders that made them so anxious for a deal with Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1970s and ...

Cruise Industry News takes a look at the last five cruise ships that have been withdrawn from service. Celestyal Crystal ...

A brutal proxy war raged in Afghanistan, and the last of the Stalin-era Soviet leaders, Konstantin Chernenko, took his place on the podium of the Kremlin. No one reflecting on the grim state of ...

and Konstantin Chernenko struggling to catch his breath in public. China and the USSR, of course, were dictatorships. Their leaders naturally resisted being replaced. But that’s partly what ...

WHILE this year's 80th anniversary of D-Day did not pass without drama, preparations for the 40th anniversary had their fair share of anxiety too. According to newly declassified documents ...

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 ...