Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer") Molotov, one of the old hands who prepared the Russian Revolution of 1917. Another old durable to go was Khrushchev's most influential industrial opponent, beetle-browed Lazar Kaganovich, the only Jew in the top Soviet hierarchy and the man who originally gave Khrushchev his start toward the big time...
...familiar line of cold, grey faces atop Lenin's cold, red tomb, watching the Red Square parades pass by, one mustachioed figure was always seen quite close to Stalin. He was First Deputy Premier Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, onetime tanner's apprentice who became an able and ruthless administrator. Stalin was rumored to have married Kaganovich's sister Roza, though this has never been established as fact...
Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...
Thus, like two other Old Bolsheviks before him-Comrades Molotov and Miko-yan-Lazar Kaganovich, at 62, has lost his big job, but not his head. One by one the Old Stalinists are disappearing from sight so that two other Old Stalinists, Bulganin and Khrushchev, can get on with their story that the heirs of Stalin had nothing to do with...
...Russians entered the piano contest for the first time since the war-highly skilled and even more highly touted. One was Lazar Berman, 26. whose performance in the eliminations got rave reviews ("a stormy and sometimes savage nature but with absolutely sensational qualities"). Berman practiced from 9 a.m. to midnight, with time out for meals, went to bed with bleeding fingertips. He thought he played his final concert "rather well. But I always feel I played less well than I could." The second, Vladimir Ashkenazy, 18, who "stupefied" a critic with his technique and profound insight and his colleagues...