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...Like many intellectuals of the day, Hirschfeld flirted with Communism, visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 and contributing dank, poignant lithographs to The New Masses in the 30s. But fate decreed that Lenin and Bulganin, as worthy as they were of caricature, would not be Hirschfeld's prime subjects. He would spend the rest of his career attending Broadway first nights, not Stalin inaugurals. He stayed out of politics; otherwise he might be drawing Jenin and Jerusalem today...
...unexpected acceptance of London's invitation by Gorbachev recalled another Soviet foreign policy initiative staged on British soil. In 1956, during the cold war, Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin came calling, opening a campaign of personal diplomacy in the West that culminated in Khrushchev's 1959 tour of the U.S. That was also a period of progress in arms-control negotiations between the U.S. and Soviet Union, though no major agreement emerged until the limited test-ban treaty...
...Comrade Deputies, on instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union I submit the proposal to appoint as Chairman of the Council of Ministers . . . Comrade Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin. We all know Nikolai Alexandrovich...
Died. Nikolai Bulganin, 79, cold war Soviet Premier (1955-58), protégé of Stalin and Khrushchev; of undisclosed causes "after a serious protracted illness"; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...
...however, Bulganin's survival instinct failed; he sided with Malenkov and others in the so-called "antiparty" plot to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary of the party. The coup failed, and Khrushchev gradually eased Bulganin from office; he drifted from job to job until retiring...