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Elsewhere in the University, experts voiced differing opinions on the significance of the shift, and the importance of the Malenkov-Khruschev split over the role of heavy industry. All however, emphasized the strength of Khruschev rather than Bulganin, because of the former's control of the Party apparatus...
...There were also obviously some strong personal differences," Langer said. He added that the ascension of Bulganin "may just be a means of avoiding the appearance of a major rift between Khrushchev and Malenkov. Someone has got to come out on top eventually in a system like Russia," he said, and then speculated that "Bulganin conceivably may be retired that "Bulganin conceivably may be retired for being overworked or for some other reason, and then Khrushchev may take over...
...Neither Bulganin nor Khrushchev has assumed the position formerly occupied by Stalin. The struggle for power should continue until one man creates such a position for himself or until the struggle radically weakens or in some way alters the structure of power in Russia. Which of these alternatives is the more likely is at present impossible to tell...
Pointing to Bulganin's past history as both a politician had head of the army, Shapire discounted any increased role for the army. 'He is a civilian, a party leader whose role has been to see to it that the army did not get out of control...
...anonymous "collective leadership," he frequently uses the first person, unusual among party leaders. He has broken precedent by personally signing decrees of the Central Committee. He has allowed himself to be named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April 17, 1954) he graciously accepted the Order of Lenin (his fourth) and was made a Hero of Socialist Labor. At a Moscow reception he told a British newsman: "Churchill speaks for Britain, I speak for the Soviet Union...