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'''Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov''' ({{langx|ru|link=no|Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов}}; {{OldStyleDate|21 November|1902|8 November}}{{spaced ndash}}25 January 1982) was a [[Soviet people|Soviet]] statesman during the [[Cold War]]. He served as [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union#Secretariat|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. His [[hardline]] attitude resisting 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]] [[Federal subjects of Russia|administrative area]] in 1939. During
After the war, Suslov became a member of the [[Orgburo|Organisational Bureau]] (Orgburo) of the Central Committee in 1946. In June 1950, he was elected to the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]]. From 16 October 1952 onwards, he was a full member of the [[19th Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|19th Presidium]] of the CPSU. In the ensuing shuffle of the Soviet leadership following Stalin's death, Suslov lost much of the recognition and influence he had previously earned. However, by the late 1950s, he had risen to become the leader of the party opposition to First Secretary [[Nikita Khrushchev]]. When 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]] as [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|general secretary]].
==Early years and career==
Suslov was born in [[Shakhovskoye, Ulyanovsk Oblast|Shakhovskoye]], [[Khvalynsky Uyezd]], [[Saratov Governorate]] (today, a rural locality in [[Pavlovsky District,
In 1931, he abandoned teaching in favour of the party apparatus. He became an inspector on the Communist Party's [[Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Party Control Commission]] and on the [[People's Commissariat]] of the [[Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate]].<ref name="reallyshortbio"/> His main task there was to adjudicate large numbers of "personal cases", breaches of discipline, and appeals against expulsion from the party.
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In 1933 and 1934, Suslov directed a commission charged with purging the party in the [[Ural (region)|Ural]] and [[Chernigov]] provinces. The purge was organised by [[Lazar Kaganovich]], then Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission. Author [[Yuri Druzhnikov]] contends that Suslov was involved with setting up several [[show trial]]s,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Druzhnikov|first=Yuri|author-link=Yuri Druzhnikov|year=1997|title=Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov|publisher=[[Transaction Publishers]] |isbn=978-1-56000-283-3| page = 62}}</ref> and contributed to the Party by expelling all members deviating from the [[Party line (politics)|Party line]], meaning [[Trotskyist]]s, [[Zinovievist]]s, and other left-wing deviationists.<ref name="reallyshortbio"/>
From 1936 to 1937, Suslov studied at the Postgraduate Course of the Economic [[Institute of Red Professors]]. He gained a reputation as an unsociable, modest, and serious student who carefully studied and memorized the works and speeches of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin and became known for keeping a complete record of their statements on economic and political issues in boxes of cards and file cabinets in his tiny room in a communal apartment. Somehow, [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] urgently needed Lenin's opinion on one narrow economic issue and dispatched his secretary [[Lev Mekhlis]] to locate the answer. Mekhlis, Suslov's classmate at the institute, approached him and instantly found the necessary quote. An amazed Stalin asked how he managed to find the quote so quickly, upon which Mekhlis introduced Stalin to Suslov.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thelman|first=Joseph|date=December 2012|title=The Man in Galoshes|url=https://jew-observer.com/istoriya/chelovek-v-galoshax/|access-date=28 February 2021|website=Jew Observer}}</ref> Stalin immediately had Suslov promoted to a secretary of the [[Rostov Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Rostov Regional Committee]] in 1937.<ref name="times1982">{{Cite news
===Wartime activities (1941–1945)===
[[File:Михаил Андреевич Суслов.jpg|thumb|155px|left|Suslov in 1941.]]
On the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]] in
According to Soviet historiography, Suslov's years as a guerrilla fighter were highly successful; however, testimonies from participants differ from the official account. These participants claim that there were a number of organizational problems which reduced their effectiveness on the battlefield. Suslov also suffered badly from tuberculosis, which he had contracted in his youth, that was further exacerbated in the dense partisan forests and hampered his ability as an effective combatant. Fearing further relapses, for the rest of his life, he continued to wear galoshes on his shoes as well as a hat and raincoat at all times, even in the hot summer weather, which made him the subject of jokes among his colleagues in Brezhnev's Politburo.<ref name="Skvortsova">{{Cite web|last=Skvortsova|first=Elena|date=7 December 2021|title=Unknown history. The "Gray Eminence" of the Soviet system Mikhail Suslov|url=https://sobesednik.ru/obshchestvo/20211207-neizvestnaya-istoriya-seryi-kardinal-so|access-date=22 February 2022|website=sobesednik}}</ref>
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* {{Cite book | author=Brown, Archie |author-link= Archie Brown (historian)| title = The Rise & Fall of Communism | location = London | publisher=[[Bodley Head]] | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-0-224-07879-5 | ref = CITEREFBrown2009}}
* {{Cite book | last = Law | first = David A. | title = Russian Civilization | publisher=Ardent Media | location=New York | year = 1975 | isbn = 978-0-8422-0529-0 }}
* {{Cite book | author=Petroff, Serge | title = The Red Eminence: A Biography of Mikhail A. Suslov | publisher=Kingston Press |location=Cliffton,
* {{Cite book | author=Schmidt-Häuer, Christian | title = Gorbachev: The Path to Power | publisher=[[I.B.Tauris]] | year = 1986 | location = London | isbn = 978-1-85043-015-5 | ref = CITEREFSchmidt-Häuer1986 }}
* {{Cite book | author=Sebag-Montefiore, Simon | title = Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar | location = New York | publisher=[[Vintage Books]] | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-1-4000-7678-9 | ref = CITEREFMontefiore2005 | author-link = Simon Sebag-Montefiore }}
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