USSR's Twilight
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
YURI ANDROPOV
- Born 1914
- KGB leader/ Committee member
- Not Brezhnev's protege
AN ACTUAL BREAK WITH THE PAST
- Considered the first political Reformer
- Political and economical Break
- Fought Gerontocracy
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ECONOMICAL REFORMS
- Almost shut down the Space Program
- Productivity reforms
- Accountability reorganization
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POLITICAL REFORM
- A controlled reform within the system boundaries
- Supported young politicians
- Fired old politicians and committee members
- Attacked corruption
- Appointed Mikhail Gorbachev as his successor
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FOREIGN POLICIES
- Main supporter of the Afghanistan Invasion
- Kept a strong control over Eastern Europe
- Supported a Nuclear Weapon control treaty
- Worsened relationship with the US
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