FTP, identify this Soviet leader, who was named president of the USSR in 1985, only to resign three years later so that Mikhail Gorbachev could assume the title, and who also served as foreign minister from 1957 to 1985.
After the purges of the 1930s he joined the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs as head of the U.S. division. He subsequently became counselor at the Soviet embassy in the U.S, and went on to serve as his country's ambassador to Great Britain and the United States. A skilled negotiator, he attended the conferences at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, and Potsdam, and was made deputy premier in 1983. FTP, identify this Soviet leader, who was named president of the USSR in 1985, only to resign three years later so that Mikhail Gorbachev could assume the title, and who also served as foreign minister from 1957 to 1985.
After the purges of the 1930s he joined the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs as head of the U.S. division.
Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko