Yuri Andropov. On the way to power. Vasiliev Yu.

The beginning of the political biography of Yu. V. Andropov is inextricably linked with the main part of the history of the sixteenth Union Republic of the USSR-Karelian-Finnish SSR (1940-1956). The Karelian time of Andropov (1940-1951) led to its formation as a young promising politician who went through a harsh school of formation as a head of youth, a specialist in the field of organizing military work (underground activities in the occupied areas, partisan movement, analytical intelligence) in emergency conditions of the Great Patriotic War in the north. The special page of the Karelian time of Yu. V. Andropov is hidden behind the secrets of political survival during the late Stalinism. The echo of Leningradsky was painful for Karelia - the result of an irreconcilable confrontation between party groups in the Stalinist system of power. As a second leader in the party hierarchy of the KFSSR, Andropov was in the focus of the confrontation between political elites in 1949-1950.

In the events of this time, you can find a solution to many issues of the political biography of Andropov of the 1950-1980s.