Word: malenkov
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...hall quieted. Voroshilov launched into a eulogy more lavish than any heard since Stalin's death. The marshal praised Khrushchev as defender of "Leninist ideas," rectifier of Stalin's "mistakes." "untiring champion of peace," architect of a "majestic housing program." victor over "antiparty plotters" such as Malenkov and Molotov. Because of Khrushchev's "exceptionally fruitful work." he concluded, "it has been decided that Nikita Sergeevich should [also] remain in his post as First Secretary" of the Communist Party...
...space of a few minutes. Nikita Khrushchev had brushed aside the myth of collective leadership and gathered to himself formal command over both the Soviet government and the Communist Party. No man except Stalin had held both jobs simultaneously before (Malenkov held both for a few transitional days in 1953 ), and even Stalin, who could have taken the premiership any time he chose, found it wise to wait 19 years for what...
...showdown last June, and it was a close thing. The majority present voted to deny Khrushchev the chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov out before him? Khrushchev fought back, and the old commissars learned that the new party boss swung a new kind of political power. According to an East German radio report, Marshal Zhukov sent out his aircraft to fetch Khrushchev's Central Committee henchmen to Moscow. In the final vote...
Having blandly appropriated the defeated Malenkov's consumer-goods program, he promised 250 branches of Moscow's huge GUM Department Store in the capital's outskirts and is building 20 blocks of apartment buildings to give some of the elite's rising expectations a little houseroom. Said one proud engineer: "It is time for others to think of us as other than backward. We are moving, and Khrushchev is helping us move...
Khrushchev, rightly or wrongly, is undoubtedly the man. He has ousted Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov, Shepilov and now Zhukov. Not even Stalin had so much power...