CHANGING OF THE GUARD.

POLITICAL leadership; POLITICAL systems; BREZHNEV, Leonid, 1906-1982; ANDROPOV, Iu. V. (Iurii Vladimirovich), 1914-1984; COMMUNIST parties; INTERNATIONAL relations; PRACTICAL politics

Focuses on changes that have taken place in the leadership and political power of the Soviet Union. Strategy of Communist Party's general secretary Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, behind the appointment of Nikolai Pikhonov for the post of the country's Prime Minister; Discussion on the future relations of the Soviet with China and the U.S.; Details of the unusual election procedure of Yuri Andropov for the Party's general secretary after Brezhnev's death.