What prompted the move to make him leader of the Communist Party?
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In 1985, he was mooted to replace Konstantin Chernenko, the leader at the time which got him the leaders position of the Communist Party in Russia
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His role was one of the many that saw the change of leadership take a younger form with many of the new faces appointees younger than before