Chernenko was elected as a compromise candidate by the Politburo ; the Central Committee could never have accepted another candidate, considering that the majority of the Central Committee members were old Brezhnev appointees.

Chernenko never got complete control over the Central Committee and Party apparatus ; while Andropov never succeeded in removing the majority of Brezhnev appointees in the Central Committee, he had succeeding in dividing the Central Committee along factional lines.

In this confusion, Chernenko was never able to become a strong leader.

On February 9, 1984 Andropov died and was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko who in turn died on March 10, 1985.

He was succeeded in office by Konstantin Chernenko, who was destined to serve even less time in office ( 13 months ) than Andropov did before his death in office.

Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who ruled for no more than 13 months.

Chernenko was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's 68-year-old successor, was seriously ill with kidney disease when he took over, and after his death fifteen months later, he was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, then 72, who lasted thirteen months before his death and replacement with Gorbachev.

When Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, it signaled a dramatic change in Soviet foreign policy.

Chernenko then steadily rose through the Party ranks, becoming the Director of the Krasnoyarsk House of Party Enlightenment then in 1939, the Deputy Head of the AgitProp Department of Krasnoyarsk Territorial Committee and finally, in 1941 he was appointed Secretary of the Territorial Party Committee for Propaganda.

The last four Soviet leaders ( Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev ) were all senior Secretaries before becoming General Secretaries.

The Godley & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of representatives from the world's nations, the event ultimately degenerating into complete global destruction.

Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko.

In November 1984 Chernenko met with Britain's Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock.

He became the third Soviet leader to die in less than three years, and, upon being informed in the middle of the night of his death, US President Ronald Reagan, who was seven months older than Chernenko and just over three years older than his predecessor Andropov, is reported to have remarked " how am I supposed to get any place with the Russians if they keep dying on me?

* Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of the Soviet Union, becomes a candidate member of the Central Committee.

Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko further rehabiliated Molotov ; in 1984 Molotov was even allowed to seek a membership in the Communist Party.

In an attempt to stress his closeness to Chernenko, he dragged the terminally ill Soviet leader out to vote in early 1985.

Chernenko did come up with a solution, to make it law that the Party leader would also become the leader of the Government apparatus.

Although Chernenko had called for renewed détente with the West, little progress was made towards closing the rift in East − West relations during his rule.

His death is viewed as starting the battle to succeed Brezhnev, in which Andropov, who assumed Suslov's post as the Party's Second Secretary, sidelined Kirilenko and Chernenko during the last days of Brezhnev's rule.

The Era of Stagnation ( often called the Period of Stagnation, Stagnation Period, Stagnation Era, the Brezhnevian Stagnation or the Brezhnev Stagnation ) was a period of economic, political and social stagnation in the Soviet Union, which began during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and continued under Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (; 26 August 1937 – 24 September 2010 ) was a Soviet Russian politician and statesman whose career spanned the rules of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, and culminated during the Gorbachev years.

In Russia, during the time of the Soviet Union ( 1917 – 1991 ), the state funerals of the most senior political and military leaders such as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko all followed the same basic outline.

As Nikolai Ryzhkov describes it in his memoirs, " every Thursday morning he ( Mikhail Gorbachev ) would sit in his office like a little orphan – I would often be present at this sad procedure – nervously awaiting a telephone call from the sick Chernenko: Would he come to the Politburo himself or would he ask Gorbachev to stand in for him this time again?

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival ( and longtime ally of Leonid Brezhnev ) Konstantin Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee.

At 71, Konstantin Chernenko was in poor health, suffering from emphysema, and unable to play an active role in policy making when he was chosen, after lengthy discussion, to succeed Andropov.

Chernenko was then elected to replace Andropov, despite concerns over his own ailing health, and against Andropov's wishes ( he stated he wanted Gorbachev to succeed him ).

Ustinov was also influential in the Chernenko regime, compensating for the latter's serious health problems and inexperience in military affairs.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.

He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.

Ruddock responded to the Stasi revelations with " certainly had no influence on national CND, and as a pro-Soviet could never have succeeded to the chair.

The Eneolithic was never part of the Stone Age, which ended conclusively the moment the first smelterer succeeded in obtaining copper from copper ore for the first time.

However, it never succeeded in this goal, despite making progress on several ecumenical fronts.

Spanish resistance continued for some years thereafter, in some cases with the help of the Jamaican Maroons, but Spain never succeeded in retaking the island.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

Major never succeeded in reconciling the " Euro-rebels " among his MPs to his European policy, who although relatively few in number-in spite of the fact that their views were much more widely supported amongst Conservative activists and voters-wielded great influence because of his small majority, and episodes such as the Maastricht Rebellion inflicted serious political damage on him and his government.

After the competition, Walter Winterbottom was succeeded by Alf Ramsey, who was less enamoured of the cocksure, free-spirited Haynes and never once picked him.

Doctors said he would never walk again, but he refused to give up, and ultimately succeeded.

He was never ousted, not even after the death of his second wife, and eventually succeeded to found a dynasty in Poland by the sons of his last wife, who were not related to earlier Polish rulers.

The next year, Isabella died giving birth to their son Conrad IV, who succeeded his mother to the throne although he never appeared in the east.

He never succeeded.

He never succeeded, however, mostly because Rollins was prone to make himself unavailable for months at a time.

As the Polish journalist Andrzej K. Wróblewski stated, the Polish post-war policy succeeded in what the Prussian state never managed: the creation of a German national consciousness among the Masurians.

He also allowed Hürrem Sultan to remain with him at court for the rest of her life, breaking another tradition — that when imperial heirs came of age, they would be sent along with the imperial concubine who bore them to govern remote provinces of the Empire, never to return unless their progeny succeeded to the throne.

As Omni International, the complex had never succeeded.

" The King has suffered anxiety over the stranger, but he and Rodney have never succeeded in capturing or identifying him, their plans constantly backfiring on themselves.

Though the French designed the Continental System to achieve this, it never succeeded in its objective.

Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank.

However, he never succeeded in persuading the British GPO to take up the idea.