Resignation of Alexei Kosygin as Soviet premier
- Title
- Resignation of Alexei Kosygin as Soviet premier
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 24 Oct 1980
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:02:34
- Description
- Report on the resignation of Alexei Kosygin as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union after 16 years in office. Includes a reading of his resignation letter, and Kosygin himself speaking about the Russian Revolution (overdubbed with English translation). Kosygin will be succeeded by Nikolai Tikhonov. Female reporter not identified; male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Alexei Kosygin
- Keywords
- Politics; USSR; Prime ministers; Communism; Politicians; Political leaders; Communists; Leonid Brezhnev; Russian Revolution (1917); Resignations (political); Alexei Kosygin; Nikolai Tikhonov
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LBC/IRN, "Resignation of Alexei Kosygin as Soviet premier". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0018500146002 (Accessed 24 Apr 2025)