The Cold War

Currently Playing: How Yuri Andropov Tried to Save the Soviet Union Part 1

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with the first of a 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 Pre-1956 Hungary: https://youtu.be/Y4_gog10pMk Hungarian Revolution 1956: https://youtu.be/qAVPXle1--g 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)