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Many of those questioned felt that Russia will be governed during the transition period after Stalin's death by a small group, possibly a triumvirate composed of Malenkov, Deputy Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov, and Laurenti Beria, head of the secret police...
...experts generally thought Malenkov would be the strongest competitor in this struggle, first because of his control of the Communist Party apparatus, and secondly because of the apparent recent decline in power of Beria and Molotov...
...legal system. In the light of this, Berman said, "it is plausible that Stalin during his lifetime attempted to provide for the succession of his power to one man, probably Malenkov, and assuming that there is not complete mistrust of Malenkov among the top leaders such as Molotov and Beria, I see no reason why a peaceful and orderly succession is not possible...
Almost all of the experts questioned emphasized Malenkov's growing strength as compared to Beria's and Molotov's. Alfred G. Meyer, assistant director of the Russian Research Center, points out that Molotov is a capable executive and ad- ally matching the Crimson's total. He sank the Tigers' second score at 11:22 of the final period to pull the Tigers within a goal of Harvard...
...Beria, he said, is a combination of J. Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy. He has great power as a "guardian of ideological purity and as a public accuser," but only so long as there is someone to listen to him. Up to now, this person has been Stalin, but without Stalin, Meyer said, Beria's position looks "shaky...