Chernenko, the Last Bolshevik - Soviet Union on the Eve of Perestroika

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko. appeared to the outside world as a commonplace Russian bureaucrat cut from the mould of a Gogol short story, was elevated in 1984 to the post of general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. The work delves into archival materials never before reported in either the East or West