Mikhail Suslov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMikhail Suslov
Soviet politician
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1902
Place of Birth: Shakhovskoye, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 25-Jan-1982
Profession: politician, economist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Mikhail Suslov
- Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Russian: ?????´? ?????´???? ??´????; 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 the power separation within the Communist Party.
- His hardline attitude toward change made him one of the foremost orthodox communist Soviet leaders. Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1921 and studied economics for much of the 1920s.
- He left his job as a teacher in 1931 to pursue politics full-time, becoming one of the many Soviet politicians who took part in the mass repression begun by Joseph Stalin's regime.
- He was made First Secretary of Stavropol Krai administrative area in 1939.
- During the war, Suslov headed the local Stavropol guerrilla movement.
- He became a member of the Organisational Bureau (Orgburo) of the Central Committee in 1946.
- In June 1950 he was elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- Since 16 October 1952 he was a full member of 19th Presidium of CPSU. Suslov lost much of the recognition and influence he had earned following the reshuffle of the Soviet leadership after Stalin's death.
- However, by the late 1950s, Suslov had risen to become the leader of the hardline opposition to Nikita Khrushchev's revisionist leadership.
- After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Suslov supported the establishment of a collective leadership.
- He also supported inner-party democracy and opposed the reestablishment of the one-man rule as seen during the Stalin and Khrushchev Eras.
- During the Brezhnev Era, Suslov was considered to be the Party's chief ideologue and second-in-command.
- His death on 25 January 1982 is viewed as starting the battle to succeed Leonid Brezhnev in the post of General Secretary.
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