Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev. Interestingly, all save Gorbachev were alive when the USSR was formed. Gorbachev was instrumental in the dissolution of the union of nations.

In March 1985, when Rajiv Gandhi went to Moscow for the funeral of Konstantin Chernenko, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, he met the leader’s ...

With the death of Communist Party secretary Leonid Brezhnev that year and that of successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko in the years following, some of our family friends gave me the ...

In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko succeeded the late Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader. In 2001, more than 400 people were killed in an earthquake in El Salvador. In 2006, a U.N. report accused the ...