Now everyone in the West knows my name is accented on the last syllable and I have a birthmark on top of my head. But not everyone knows what I have had to do to produce the illusion of solid ...

The Soviet Union on Wednesday marks the end of one year under the benign stewardship of Konstantin Chernenko, but despite attempts at upbeat official propaganda the occasion is clouded by uncertainty, ...

“A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominateits successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet Communist Party chairman Monday, is a boy wonder of Soviet politics who completed a dazzling climb to power with election to ...

The strains of Chopin`s ”Funeral March” drifted across Red Square yet again Wednesday as the Soviet Union buried another of its leaders, this time President Konstantin Chernenko. It was the fifth ...

You remember them. Heavy men, bundled in suits that looked like they had been made in a box factory, faces lined with years of drinking and heavy food and, of course, fear. Brezhnev, Andropov, ...