Word: malenkov
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...those below him in rank with the unceremonious and familiar "thou." Said a Russian who knew him during his days in the Moscow Soviet: "He exudes self-confidence and aplomb. He knows very well how to annoy people with explanations of their party tasks." Was he talking with Malenkov now about his failed party tasks? Was he using the familiar "thou...
Test of Strength. First Secretary Khrushchev could afford to joke to Malenkov if he had a mind to. He had chosen to make his battle for power public for more than a year now. Openly he had criticized the government ministries under Malenkov's control for inefficiency, for lagging production, etc. Pointedly he had demanded an increasingly harder Stalin line, as opposed to the soft line Malenkov had identified himself with...
...Leap. How did Khrushchev jump so smartly from under secretary to First Secretary of the party, at Malenkov's expense? Outside the Kremlin, no one knows. In the months after Stalin's death, it was to the interest of all the jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas...
While diplomats and pundits the world over weighed these matters with care trying to measure the change from "coexistence" to hardness, from consumer to heavy industry, as if Malenkov and Khrushchev were members of a democratic cabinet politely begging to differ with each other, the fact was that in the final testing of strengths neither man cared basically about ideological matters. Proof of this lay in the resignation announcement. In losing the struggle for power, Malenkov even had to take the rap for errors in agriculture made by Khrushchev...
...years ago, when Stalin died, the world expected a dramatic breakdown in Soviet politics, then settled back to see what would be done under a proclaimed collective leadership. Who is the No. 1 man? they asked. For the first fortnight they thought that it was Malenkov: he appeared confidently installed as head of the committee. But 16 days after Dictator Stalin's death, there was a significant change: Khrushchev supplanted Malenkov as First Secretary of the party, key position in the Communist setup, a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. Who was Nikita Khrushchev that...