Yuri Andropov. On the way to power

The beginning of the political biography of Yu.V. Andropova 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.
A special page of Karelian time Yu.V. Andropova is hidden behind the secrets of political survival during the period of late Stalinism. The ic of the "Leningrad business" turned out to be painful for Karelia - the result of an implacable 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 in the 1950s and 1980s