Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow, in a personal, 2O-page letter to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, came so tough a rejection of everything the West thought it was bargaining for that-if taken literally-there was no further need to continue the disarmament talks in London. The West decided not to take it literally...
...among the people, a scabby sheep appeared among a good flock. They were thinking of seizing the key positions and of turning the current their own way. But you know, Comrades, how it ended. As one, we took them by their tails and threw them out." Murmured Premier Nikolai Bulganin, whose new, lesser role in association with Khrushchev was underlined by a new low in obsequiousness: "It is necessary to emphasize in particular that the First Secretary, Comrade Khrushchev, deserves great praise for unmasking and defeating the anti-party group...
...demanded a meeting of the Presidium. Khrushchev is said to have agreed, but when the Presidium met on June 17 or 19, three full members were absent. The opposition challenged Khrushchev's right to preside, and on a vote he was denied the chair. It was taken by Bulganin. Then the opposition launched an attack on Khrushchev's policies, charging him with Trotskyist and rightist peasant deviations. Translated out of Communist jargon, this meant that Khrushchev's foreign policy was too adventuresome, and his opportunistic farm policy would breed a new crop of rich kulaks.* Some Communist...
...Faces. Of the old Presidium, only Khrushchev, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four...
...Czech party Central Committee met just before the latest changes in Moscow, and loudly reaffirmed its unyielding (or "dogmatic") course. But this week Khrushchev is traveling to Prague. He will be accompanied by Bulganin-and Russia's Secret Police Boss Ivan Serov...