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...Power to Blame. As U.S. readers of the Russian mind dove into the news of Malenkov's descent, interpretations rippled further and further from the central point. Did the change portend a reversal of the post-Stalin "soft" line? Was it a struggle between "liberal" Communists favoring consumer goods, and "tough" Communists relying on terror and bent on war? Or was it a purely personal struggle for power...
...Schwarts, assistant professor of History, and a member of the Russian Research Center, said it is much too early to know whether or not there will be any significant change in Russia's relations toward China. But, as he pointed out, during the short period of time when Malenkov was Prime Minister, there was a trend to ease the difference of the two countries, and there is no present reason for the trend to halt...
Perhaps, the men in the Kremlin feared another Tito; perhaps, they wanted China as a very close ally. Whatever the reason, beginning with the ascension of Malenkov as Prime Minister, Russia made a number of concessions to the Chinese. Mao began to be treated with much more respect, and his ideological views were accepted as equal to those of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin...
...rightist deviation, a belching of views hostile to Leninism which were once propagated by Rykov and Bukharin."* Though Khrushchev did not identify just who could have belched such dreadful views, all his hearers knew that among those who had was Khrushchev himself. And another had been Premier Georgy Malenkov, who in August 1953 proclaimed that Russia was in a position "to expand light industry at the same rate as heavy industry," and promised the public more candies, TV sets and "elegant footwear...
...Malenkov's recent expansion in consumer goods was done probably to increase the morale of the laborer who works with very little advance possible unless he should be a gifted engineer or technician; and then, only if he is a successful...