1961–1984: Full member, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th Central Committee
Other political offices held
1957–1967: Head, Department for Relations with the Communist and Workers' Parties of the Socialist Countries
1954–1957: Ambassador, Hungary
Leader of the Soviet Union
← Brezhnev
Chernenko →
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov[a][b] (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914– 9 February 1984)[2] was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking office in 1982 and serving until his death in 1984.
Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which time he was involved in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was named chairman of the KGB on 10 May 1967. After Brezhnev suffered a stroke in 1975 that impaired his ability to govern, Andropov increasingly dictated Soviet policymaking alongside Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Grechko's successor, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov.
Upon Brezhnev's death on 10 November 1982, Andropov succeeded him as General Secretary and, by extension, as the leader of the Soviet Union. During his short tenure, Andropov sought to eliminate corruption and inefficiency in the country by criminalizing truancy in the workplace and investigating longtime officials for violations of party discipline. The Cold War intensified, and he was at a loss for how to handle the growing crisis in the Soviet economy. His major long-term impact was bringing to the fore a new generation of young reformers as energetic as himself, including Yegor Ligachyov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and, most importantly, Mikhail Gorbachev.[3] Upon suffering kidney failure in February 1983, Andropov's health began to deteriorate rapidly. He died on 9 February 1984, having led the country for about 15 months.
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^"Andropov". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. Routledge. 28 October 2013. ISBN 9781136787850 – via Google Books.
^Mauricio Borrero, "Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich 1914–1984." Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators (2006), pp. 7–10.
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