Gorachev new Soviet leader
On Mar. 3, 1985, The Times reported that hours after the announcement of President Konstantin U. Chernenko’s death, his youngest lieutenant, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, took power in a lightning shift away from the aged elite that has rule the huge, secretive Soviet state for two decades.
Published: March 11, 1985
Sources: Los Angeles Times
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