Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials...
Junior Vice President. "In theory Vassily got his orders from Nikita Khrushchev,* governor of the Ukrainian Republic ... in practice, however, he preferred to take his troubles to his guardian angel among the heavy brass-a handsome young man named I. S. Senin, vice chairman, of the Council and one of Boss Khrushchev's fair-haired boys...
...Boss Khrushchev], one of the 14 most powerful men in Russia, at 52 looks at least a decade older, rather like a beardless Santa Claus after a hard Christmas, because he almost worked himself to death during the war. The day-to-day performance of the men who run the Ukraine seemed to me about as good as any I've ever seen. . . . They would measure up pretty well, for example, beside such smooth-running outfits as the U.S. Forest Service or the Republican machine in Westchester County...
...Like Dmitry Manuilsky, Foreign Minister of the Ukraine, and the Ukraine's second most important figure, Khrushchev was born outside the Ukraine in Russia proper. Since 1937 no native Ukrainian has held a top job in his own country...