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1985, March 10
Death of Konstantin Chernenko. He was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev as party leader in April, the first Soviet chief born after 1917.	1
July 2
Andrei Gromyko was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The new foreign minister was Eduard Shevardnadze, a friend of Gorbachev.	2

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