Andropov and the U.S. Media: A Comparative Study of Yuri Andropov‟s Premiership of the USSR as viewed through the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2011

The sudden collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in August, 1991 combined with a prevailing moral framework for analysis has discouraged literatures on Soviet leaders from the death of Josef Stalin to the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev for a variety of reasons.Firstly, the leaders after Stalin had survived the terror and emerged from, to quote Moshe Lewin, a "ruling class without tenure." 1 Therefore, it was the goal of the post-Stalin leaders to prevent a