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Mikhail Suslov

1902 - 1982

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Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1902 – 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial chief ideologue of the party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and power separation within the Communist Party. His hardline attitude resisting change made him one of the foremost orthodox communist Soviet leaders. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Suslov is the 2,391st most popular politician (down from 2,159th in 2019), the 208th most popular biography from Russia (down from 206th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Russian Politician.

Mikhail Suslov was a Soviet politician who served as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 to 1982. He was a key figure in the country's transition from a one-party system to a multi-party system.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mikhail Suslov ranks 2,391 out of 19,576Before him are Apepi, Jayavarman VII, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Michael IX Palaiologos, Khasekhemwy, and Jan Masaryk. After him are Chilperic II, Harsha, Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, Pak Hon-yong, Louis I of Etruria, and Alexandre Colonna-Walewski.

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Among people born in 1902, Mikhail Suslov ranks 30Before him are William Wyler, Margaret Hamilton, Nâzım Hikmet, Andrew Irvine, Marcel Breuer, and Meyer Lansky. After him are Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Ray Kroc, Arne Jacobsen, Juscelino Kubitschek, Theodore Schultz, and Reinhard Gehlen. Among people deceased in 1982, Mikhail Suslov ranks 31Before him are Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Barack Obama Sr., Hugo Theorell, Gala Dalí, Georges Perec, and Hugh Everett III. After him are Władysław Gomułka, Jacques Tati, C. R. Swart, Curd Jürgens, Walter Hallstein, and Cevdet Sunay.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Suslov ranks 208 out of 3,761Before him are Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexei Leonov (1934), Vladimir Propp (1895), and Alexej von Jawlensky (1864). After him are Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Mikhail Suslov ranks 69Before him are Öz Beg Khan (1282), Felix Yusupov (1887), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875). After him are Vasily Blokhin (1895), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Gustav Bauer (1870), Viktor Zubkov (1941), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), and Gennady Zyuganov (1944).