Word: malenkov
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...Czechs were drastically edited by other hands before being passed out to the press: Did Stalin let someone else, without his say-so, edit his remarks? The easy confidence of the happy tourists reflected their satisfaction at the turn of events, but it also raised a question: Had the Malenkov affair been, as Communist sources were anxious to make out, a personal power struggle on the lines of a Maffia feud or a Chicago gang fight? Or was it, remembering the breadth and depth of the Soviet state, and the irreducible fanaticism of the Communist ideology, a power adjustment...
...minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee and, according to Khrushchev himself, Politburo meetings were a sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies and personal toadies whom Stalin switched around at will, and sometimes caused to disappear...
...have begun to see the essential weakness of his personal autocracy; in 1952 he called, for the first time since 1939, a congress of the party, reconvened the Central Committee and set up a 36-man Party Presidium (a new name for the Politburo) in which his favorite, Malenkov, had a prominent place. Was this a dying dictator's effort to reconstitute a party whose power he had all but destroyed? Or was it, as Khrushchev said, his way of seeking "younger" men who would do nothing "but extol...
...evidence of the past four years is that the Soviet inner power struggle, of which the Malenkov banishment is only one chapter, began at this point. It is not only a fight between known men, but a struggle among powerful institutions-the party as a political organization, the party in the NKVD, the party in the Soviet Army-and involved in this struggle are others, as well as the faces the world knows, with degrees of power the world can only guess at. They want no new autocracy, but the inevitable impulse, Soviet Communism being what it is, has been...
...Timashuk Woman. Counting against all the old Politburocrats and Kremlin toadies was the party's and people's hatred of Stalin. All were guilty by association, and by the innumerable crimes they had committed at the dictator's direction, but Malenkov was closer to Stalin than any of the others. As Stalin lay ill, a letter reached him from a woman doctor called Timashuk, warning him of improper treatments being used by his doctors. The "sickly suspicious" Stalin ordered the top specialists of the Kremlin dispensary arrested, called in Security Boss Semyon D. Ignatiev* and told...