The central concern of Beichman and Bernstam's "Andropov: New Challenge to the West" is Andropov's place in the politics of the final phase of the Stalin era, but it must be supplemented by the tendentious and rumor-mongering, though at times discerning, book by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova, "Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin."
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