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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with the conclusion of our two part biographical series examining the life of Yuri Andropov in an effort to explain not only his rise to be leader of the Soviet Union but also a man convinced of its need to reform if it was to survive Yuri Andropov pt 1: https://youtu.be/yCw1i9Gw6pQ Red Scare and McCarthyism: https://youtu.be/VBhcXCgiqno Fischer vs Spassky: https://youtu.be/T1YPA5AOSTI Soviet Domination of Chess: https://youtu.be/uRGf08o4_W0 CF-105 Arrow & The Bomber Gap: https://youtu.be/g6JM2ZB7XuQ A History of Maoism: https://youtu.be/WM7qSQqAg_0 China's Cultural Revolution: https://youtu.be/fCA5VP5Tdrs Commercial Air Travel: https://youtu.be/fqVtEa5ooJ0 Reykjavik Summit 1986: https://youtu.be/xmDHy4M7rdM Saturday Morning Cartoons: https://youtu.be/hPToTKCcycI The Profumo Affair: https://youtu.be/PfQ-FY3zPdM Ghosts of Cold War Berlin: https://youtu.be/52bC38bm6rk America's Bioweapons pt 2: https://youtu.be/0yEVIRy23H4 America's Bioweapons pt 1: https://youtu.be/12WyLu6WuBs The CIA's Poisoner-in-Chief: https://youtu.be/6zRat81cDrg The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #USSR #SovietUnion #Andropov #YuriAndropov #politburo **SOURCES** Jonathan Steele and Eric Abraham, Andropov in Power: From Komsomol to Kremlin (1984) William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017) Roy Medvedev, General Secretary from Lubyanka: A Political Biography of Yu.V. Andropov (1993) Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West (2000) Arnold Beichman and Mikhail S. Bernstam, Andropov: New Challenge to the West (1983) Seweryn Bialer, “The Andropov Succession,” The New York Review of Books (1983) Archie Brown, “The Soviet Succession: From Andropov to Chernenko,” The World Today, Vol.40, No.4 (1984) Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova, Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage Into the Kremlin (1983) Yuri Glazov, “Yuri Andropov: A New Leader of Russia,” Studies in Soviet Thought, Vol.26, No.3 (1983)