Representative of a new generation of Soviet leaders
	Trained and promoted entirely within the Stalinist system
	Excelled in bureaucratic intrigues and politicking
	Personified an average First Secretary of the regional level
	Lacked education and strategic foresight
	Was not a malicious or cruel person
	Balanced in the political middle rejecting both a deep-going de-Stalinisation and a full-scale return to Stalinism

 

 

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