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Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin

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Andropov discusses his rise to leadership in the Soviet Union, h is roles in the KGB and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, his campaign against dissidents and detente, his impact on the Polish crisis, and his future plans.

302 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1983

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Vladimir I. Solovyov

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«Три еврея»
«Не плачь обо мне…» (1982, Израиль); «Юрий Андропов: тайный ход в Кремль» (1983),
«Борьба в Кремле» (1986),
«Борис Ельцин: политические метаморфозы» (1991),
«Парадоксы русского фашизма» (1995) — первые издания в Америке по-английски, следом на многих языках, включая русский;
«Операция 'Мавзолей’» (1989);
«Призрак, кусающий себе локти» (1992),
«Похищение Данаи» и «Матрешка» (1997, 1998 — сначала в нью-йоркской и лос-анджелевской периодике, отдельными изданиями в Нью-Йорке и Москве),
«Варианты любви» (2000),
«Довлатов вверх ногами» (2001), «Семейные тайны» (2001)

и сериал в издательстве «Рипол классик»: «PostMortem. Запретная книга о Бродском» (2006),
«Как я умер. Субъективный травелог»
«Записки скорпиона. Роман с памятью» (2007).

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March 27, 2022
While visiting Prague in 2014, my host told me a Warsaw Pact era joke, "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." Hey, it's in the book, too.

This guy's life of villany needs to be set to iambic pentameter: his slimey nature was Shakespearean. The reporters/authors wove Andropov's position into the whole cloth of Soviet leadership and history.

And the Russian populace continues to bear the brunt of her leaders' tyranny.
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