Mikhail Suslov

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Mikhail Suslov was a powerful Soviet politician and chief ideologue of the Communist Party, known as one of the principal architects of postwar Soviet orthodoxy and policy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
communist
human
political ideologue
awardReceived Hero of Socialist Labour
Lenin Prize
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
burialPlace Kremlin Wall Necropolis
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1902-11-21
dateOfDeath 1982-01-25
educatedAt Moscow Institute of National Economy
era Cold War
ethnicGroup Russians
familyName Suslov
fullName Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov
givenName Mikhail
ideology Marxism–Leninism
pro-Soviet internationalism
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
movement Marxism–Leninism
Soviet communism
Stalinism
nativeLanguage Russian
notableFor influence on Soviet domestic and foreign policy during the Cold War
opposition to political liberalization in the USSR
role as chief ideologue of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
shaping Soviet policy toward Eastern Europe
notableWork development of CPSU ideological policy during the Cold War
formulation of postwar Soviet ideological orthodoxy
participatedIn Great Patriotic War
postwar reconstruction of the Soviet Union
patronymicName Andreyevich
placeOfBirth Pavlovsky Uyezd
Russian Empire
Shakhovskoye
Vyatka Governorate
placeOfDeath Moscow
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
positionHeld Chairman of the Ideological Commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU
People's Commissar for State Control of the RSFSR
Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the CPSU Central Committee
member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
religion state atheism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Moscow
workPeriod 1920s–1982

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Mikhail Suslov ("Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov")
fullName
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
notableBurial

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