Word: bulganins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever a fine figurehead of a man, portly Nikolai Bulganin smiled and applauded last week as his successor tipped him into the dustbin of history...
...Central Committee had held a decisive meeting, and the dutiful Deputies sensed that they were to be called on to ratify changes in what the comrades are pleased to call the vanguard of the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat. Moscow's talk centered around the premiership. Marshal Bulganin. the goateed. pleasantly plump palace commissar who had held the job for the last three years, had hesitated too long about supporting Khrushchev in last June's party leadership struggle and had received far fewer nominations than other Politburocrats for last month's Supreme Soviet elections. Now Bulganin took...
There was a moment of stunned silence. Then reporters ran for their telephones; the Deputies rose clapping their hands. In his second-row seat on the platform, wearing a frozen smile. Bulganin joined in the applause for his successor. Khrushchev himself stood for seconds with head bowed until, unable to control himself, he clasped his hands over his head and grinned in a boxer's triumphal salute...
Khrushchev had been forced to go through the pretense of deference while Bulganin sat down to talk with Eisenhower and the other heads of government. Now Khrushchev could dispense with stooges and talk man to man-and nimble-witted Nikita Khrushchev would like nothing better than such a talk with Ike Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan...
...Electric Power Stations, and kept around for the back row of group pictures. With the help of Marshal Zhukov, Khrushchev defeated last year's drive by Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich to overthrow him, and then turned on the marshal. In this imposing progress down murderer's row, Bulganin was Khrushchev's ninth major victim. Moscow diplomats guessed that Bulganin, who is said to have taken increasingly to the bottle of late, might hang on to his Presidium seat for a while as a Deputy Premier...