Word: beria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heirs themselves-Premier Georgy Malenkov, Lavrenty Beria, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Bulganin, Lazar Kaganovich-stood the first honor watch at the bier. Then the huge doors were thrown open. For 60 hours, the men, women & children of Moscow marched in to gaze, in awe, in curiosity, or in grief, at the powerful little man so few had seen in life...
...long and so well. "The Soviet Union . . . is waging a consistent policy . . . of peace . . . A policy based on the Lenin-Stalin premise of the possibility of coexistence and peaceful competition of . . . capitalist and socialist," said he. But Russia had a "sacred duty" to keep its army mighty. Next spoke Beria (who called Malenkov the disciple of Stalin) and then, slightly choked by emotion, Old Bolshevik V. M. Molotov. At 11:55 a.m.the orators were done, and the world was noting the order in which they spoke-Malenkov, Beria, Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind...
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, 53, Deputy Premier, Minister of he Interior, head of the secret police. A Georgian like Stalin, of poor peasant family, graduated in architecture, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, the secret police in 1921. Brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1938 to head the secret police after Yezhov was purged. Operates the largest slavelabor economy in the world, exploiting some 14 million prisoners; also bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial...
Several changes make for a more streamlined emergency command setup-or, as Moscow's official communiqué put it, "more operative leadership." The changes: ¶A few years ago, Beria, Molotov and Bulganin stopped actually running their ministries, remained on the all-powerful Politburo, free to think and plan; the ministries were taken over by lesser lights, e.g., Andrei Vishinsky replaced Molotov as Foreign Minister. Now the top boys are back in charge of their departments and the second-stringers are kicked downstairs, e.g., Vishinsky is now only deputy minister and chief representative at U.N. ¶At last October...
...party and the government, are older and more experienced than he; some still belong to the "first generation" of the revolution, which probably never quite got used to the young "Neanderthalers." Molotov and Kaganovich are perhaps neither able nor ambitious enough to set themselves up against Malenkov. Beria, who controls the police, has long been regarded as an ally of Malenkov's; furthermore, since alliances are of dubious value in Soviet Russia, Malenkov is said to have top men of his own in Beria's outfit. The army could conceivably seize power through some popular general like Zhukov...