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	{{Infobox politician\|native_name=Александр Яковлев\|image_size=200\|birth_date=2 December 1923\|birth_place=Korolyovo, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]\|death_date=18 October 2005\|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]\|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]\|image=Alexander Yakovlev.png}}		{{Infobox politician\|native_name=Александр Яковлев\|image_size=200\|birth_date=2 December 1923\|birth_place=Korolyovo, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]\|death_date=18 October 2005\|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]\|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]\|image=Alexander Yakovlev.png}}

	'''Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev''' (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yakovlev as head of the [[Department of Agitation and Propaganda]].<ref name=":022">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86\|page=116–118\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref> Yakovlev described himself as a [[Social democracy\|social democrat]].<ref name=":0222">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Turning Point, 1987-88\|page=136\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref>		'''Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev''' (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yakovlev as head of the [[Department of Agitation and Propaganda]].<ref name=":022">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86\|page=116–118\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref> Yakovlev described himself as a [[Social democracy\|social democrat]].<ref name=":0222">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Turning Point, 1987-88\|page=136, 149\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref>

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==
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	== Political career ==		== Political career ==
	Yakovlev was the Soviet ambassador to [[Canada]] from 1973 to 1983. In 1983, Gorbachev visited Yakovlev in Canada and appointed him as director of the [[Institute for International Relations and World Economy]]. Yakovlev made [[Glavlit]] give up its oversight of publications and appointed [[Anti-communism\|anti-communists]] as editors of major journals and newspapers.<ref name=":022" />		Yakovlev was the Soviet ambassador to [[Canada]] from 1973 to 1983. In 1983, Gorbachev visited Yakovlev in Canada and appointed him as director of the [[Institute for International Relations and World Economy]]. Yakovlev made [[Glavlit]] give up its oversight of publications and appointed [[Anti-communism\|anti-communists]] as editors of major journals and newspapers.<ref name=":022" /> In 1985, he proposed splitting the CPSU into a Socialist Party and People's Democratic Party.<ref name=":0222" />

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Soviet politicians]]		[[Category:Soviet politicians]]

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	{{Infobox politician\|native_name=Александр Яковлев\|image_size=200\|birth_date=2 December 1923\|birth_place=Korolyovo, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]\|death_date=18 October 2005\|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]\|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]\|image=Alexander Yakovlev.png}}		{{Infobox politician\|native_name=Александр Яковлев\|image_size=200\|birth_date=2 December 1923\|birth_place=Korolyovo, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]\|death_date=18 October 2005\|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]\|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]\|image=Alexander Yakovlev.png}}

	'''Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev''' (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yakovlev as head of the [[Department of Agitation and Propaganda]].<ref name=":022">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86\|page=116–118\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref>		'''Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev''' (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yakovlev as head of the [[Department of Agitation and Propaganda]].<ref name=":022">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86\|page=116–118\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref> Yakovlev described himself as a [[Social democracy\|social democrat]].<ref name=":0222">{{Citation\|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny\|year=2010\|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union\|chapter=Turning Point, 1987-88\|page=136\|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf\|publisher=iUniverse.com\|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref>

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==

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{{Infobox politician|native_name=Александр Яковлев|image_size=200|birth_date=2 December 1923|birth_place=Korolyovo, [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]|death_date=18 October 2005|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian Federation]]|political_party=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]|image=Alexander Yakovlev.png}}

'''Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev''' (2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet politician. In 1985, Gorbachev appointed Yakovlev as head of the [[Department of Agitation and Propaganda]].<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny|year=2010|title=Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union|chapter=Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86|page=116–118|pdf=https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaceaj5ucph44bjwyhlhsbycckr3ts76zbucn2hbrea32tltcd4s5ekg?filename=Roger%20Keeran_%20Thomas%20Kenny%20-%20Socialism%20Betrayed_%20Behind%20the%20Collapse%20of%20the%20Soviet%20Union-iUniverse.com%20%282010%29.pdf|publisher=iUniverse.com|isbn=9781450241717}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Yakovlev joined the CPSU while serving in the navy during the [[Great Patriotic War]]. He attended the Academy of Social Sciences from 1956 to 1960 and became deputy director of the [[agitprop]] department in 1965.<ref name=":022" />

== Political career ==
Yakovlev was the Soviet ambassador to [[Canada]] from 1973 to 1983. In 1983, Gorbachev visited Yakovlev in Canada and appointed him as director of the [[Institute for International Relations and World Economy]]. Yakovlev made [[Glavlit]] give up its oversight of publications and appointed [[Anti-communism|anti-communists]] as editors of major journals and newspapers.<ref name=":022" />

== References ==
[[Category:Soviet politicians]]