President Konstantin Chernenko, who has not appeared in public since late December, spoke at this week`s regular meeting of the Communist Party Politburo, Soviet television said Thursday night. The ...

On this day in 1984, the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, meeting at the Kremlin, named Konstantin Chernenko to succeed Yuri Andropov as its general secretary, automatically making him the ...

It took the Communist Party’s Central Committee four days to choose the successor to Yuri V. Andropov, but the selection of Konstantin U. Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union came as no surprise 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 ...

It's April 1, and the Internet is a frazzled, hot mess of jokes, lies and hoaxes being witlessly shared by your friend's roommate's boyfriend. Be skeptical: Nothing newsworthy is real, unless someone ...

Joe Biden is America’s Konstantin Chernenko – Konstantin Chernenko was a loyal, steadfast member of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. A drab, stern man by bearing, Chernenko was 72 years-old ...

Konstantin Chernenko, 73, the Soviet Union`s sixth Communist Party leader since the overthrow of the czar in 1917; he was Leonid Brezhnev`s propaganda chief in the 1950s and headed the party`s general ...

President Konstantin Chernenko was too ill to attend an election meeting in the Kremlin Friday and for the first time the Soviet people were told officially their leader is ailing. Chernenko’s ...

Boris Johnson made a niche reference to Konstantin Chernenko during his leader’s speech at the Conservative conference in Manchester on Tuesday. The Prime Minister spoke about Jeremy Corbyn and said ...

Does anyone now remember Konstantin Chernenko? In the last decades of Soviet communism, a succession of old men arrived at the helm whose one merit was that they were as sclerotic as the system they ...

Perhaps the best historical analog to President Biden (“Democrats Start to Panic About Biden,” Review & Outlook, Sept. 11) comes not from America, but from the declining years of the Soviet Union. The ...

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) east of ...