Word: gosplan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment on the limits of Khrushchev's power (compared with Stalin's) that the issue was debated. In the Supreme Soviet four Deputies asked for changes. A government decree announced that Khrushchev's closest associate, Nikolai K. Baibakov, chairman of the Gosplan (top planning commission), had been demoted and replaced by Iosif I. Kuzmin, a complete unknown in the hierarchy of Soviet greats. Kuzmin was known only to have graduated from engine driver to boss of a Moscow experimental production plant. His modest history gave no hint of where he stood in the party power struggle except...
Nikolai A. Voznesensky, member of the Politburo, chairman of the Gosplan(State Planning Commission...