Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev (born 1920) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1966. During the 1980s he became a leading advocate of a more conservative approach to perestroika but was ousted from...

Distracted by the glitter of glasnost, some people missed one big lesson of last week's party conference in Moscow: the strength of the conservatives ranged behind Mr Yegor Ligachev. Here we look at the world of Mr Ligachev, starting, with our Bonn correspondent,...

Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin (Pantheon) is the first installment of a two-volume memoir by the man who until 1990 was Mikhail Gorbachev's deputy Communist Party leader. At 75, Yegor Ligachev is a living specimen of the "New Soviet Man," a man informed by "old-fashioned...