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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Suslov has received more than 621,004 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Mikhail Suslov is the 2,159th most popular politician (down from 2,006th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Russia (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 67th 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 2,159 out of 19,576Before him are Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Eugène Edine Pottier, Louise of Orléans, John, Prince of Asturias, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and Karl Radek. After him are Solomon, King of Hungary, Sporus, Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Cyril Ramaphosa, Thaksin Shinawatra, and Teia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Mikhail Suslov ranks 27Before him are Arne Tiselius, Ray Kroc, William Wyler, Josemaría Escrivá, Arne Jacobsen, and Meyer Lansky. After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Fritz Strassmann, André Michel Lwoff, Alva Myrdal, Juscelino Kubitschek, and Marcel Breuer. Among people deceased in 1982, Mikhail Suslov ranks 32Before him are Hugh Everett III, John Belushi, Hugo Theorell, Gilles Villeneuve, Jiro Horikoshi, and William Giauque. After him are Stanford Moore, Curd Jürgens, Ivan Bagramyan, Hans Selye, Władysław Gomułka, and Cevdet Sunay.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Suslov ranks 206 out of 3,761Before him are Christian Goldbach (1690), Anna Netrebko (1971), Vasily II of Moscow (1415), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Vasily Stalin (1921), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887). After him are Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Gherman Titov (1935), Igor Tamm (1895), and Nicholas Roerich (1874).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Mikhail Suslov ranks 67Before him are Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Felix Yusupov (1887), Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia (1657), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia (1690), and Vasily II of Moscow (1415). After him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Gustav Bauer (1870), Vasily I of Moscow (1371), Gennady Yanayev (1937), and Boris Nemtsov (1959).