1939–1984: Full member, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, & 26th Central Committee
Other political offices held
1949-1952: Head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee
1949-1950: Editor-in-chief of Pravda
1947-1948: Head of the Agitation & Propaganda Department of the Central Committee
1946-1949 & 1953-1954: Head of the International Department of the Central Committee
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1902 – 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial chief ideologue of the party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and power separation within the Communist Party. His hardline attitude resisting change made him one of the foremost orthodox communist Soviet leaders.
Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1921 and studied economics for much of the 1920s. He left his job as a teacher in 1931 to pursue politics full-time, becoming one of the many Soviet politicians who took part in the mass repression begun by Joseph Stalin's regime. He was made First Secretary of Stavropol Krai administrative area in 1939. During World War II, Suslov headed the local Stavropol guerrilla movement.
After the war, Suslov became a member of the Organisational Bureau (Orgburo) of the Central Committee in 1946. In June 1950, he was elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. From 16 October 1952 onwards, he was a full member of the 19th Presidium of the CPSU. In the ensuing shuffle of the Soviet leadership following Stalin's death, Suslov lost much of the recognition and influence he had previously earned. However, by the late 1950s, he had risen to become the leader of the party opposition to First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev. When Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Suslov supported the establishment of a collective leadership. He also supported inner-party democracy and opposed the reestablishment of the one-man rule as seen during the Stalin and Khrushchev eras. During the Brezhnev era, Suslov was considered to be the party's chief ideologue and second-in-command. His death on 25 January 1982 is viewed as starting the battle to succeed Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary.
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1902 – 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the...
minister, Alexei Kosygin, and the longstanding senior party member MikhailSuslov. The government considered Gorbachev sufficiently reliable that he was...
behind the invasion, who misinformed Brezhnev, was MikhailSuslov. Brezhnev's personal physician Mikhail Kosarev later recalled that Brezhnev, when he was...
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against Mikhail Kasyanov; according to Khinshtein, Kasyanov, when he was prime minister, privatized Sosnovka-1, the former state dacha of MikhailSuslov, a...
conservative wing of the leadership. To make matters even worse for Podgorny, MikhailSuslov, who had kept outside of the conflict, sided with Brezhnev, and called...
the Politburo were not available immediately, MikhailSuslov had the first call. Brezhnev overruled Suslov's decision at least once, voting to bury Semyon...
country for only 13 months, and was succeeded as General Secretary by Mikhail Gorbachev. Chernenko was born to a poor family of Ukrainian ethnicity in...
the Department on 18 September 1947. Since the new department head, MikhailSuslov, had other responsibilities, Shepilov had almost complete control of...
in the Central Committee apparatus and appointed head of the KGB on MikhailSuslov's recommendation and promoted to candidate member of the Politburo. In...
Hungary, Politburo members Anastas Mikoyan and MikhailSuslov, as well as KGB Chairman Ivan Serov and Mikhail Malinin, commander-in-chief of the Soviet forces...
SFSR, Mikhail Rodionov. However, Beria was unable to purge MikhailSuslov, whom he hated. Beria felt increasingly uncomfortable with Suslov's growing...
through the communist parties of Spain and France and later through MikhailSuslov. After the 1933 rise of Salazar's dictatorial Estado Novo regime, suppression...
another decade until publication after Zhukov clashed constantly with MikhailSuslov, the Communist Party's Chief Ideologue and Second in Command in charge...
of Soviet politics, MikhailSuslov, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Dmitriy Ustinov, and Konstantin Chernenko had died, and Mikhail Gorbachev had become...
Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Ivan Turgenev; politicians Mikhail Gorbachev, MikhailSuslov, and Ruslan Khasbulatov; and mathematicians and physicists...
accomplished this by discussing policies before Politburo meetings with MikhailSuslov, Andrei Kirilenko, Fyodor Kulakov and Dmitriy Ustinov among others,...
Mikhail Petrovich Suslov (Russian: Михаил Петрович Суслов; 23 March 1939 – 5 March 2024), also known as Misha Suslov (Russian: Миша Суслов), was a Russian...
the Hungarian Working People's Party government there. Together with MikhailSuslov, Mikoyan traveled to Budapest in an armored personnel carrier, in view...
sci-fi novels". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-04. MikhailSuslov; Per-Arne Bodin (19 September 2019). The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia:...
Troitse-Lykovo in west Moscow between the dachas once occupied by Soviet leaders MikhailSuslov and Konstantin Chernenko. A staunch believer in traditional Russian...
Hotel Ukraina 26 - Apartment building that housed Leonid Brezhnev, MikhailSuslov, and Yuri Andropov 32 - Sberbank City 38 - Borodino Panorama museum...
date of the attempt on the Pope's life, include the actual death of MikhailSuslov in January 1982, frequent references to Transformers which did not appear...
to have him replaced with his Second Secretary and Party Ideologue MikhailSuslov (whom Ilyin called "the most outstanding person in the party at the...
power, and a collective leadership led by Brezhnev, Kosygin, Podgorny, MikhailSuslov and Andrei Kirilenko was formed. In the months following Khrushchev's...
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