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Pressures which forced Georgi Malenkov to relinquish his position as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1953 probably caused the Russian prime minister's abrupt resignation, a Russian authority at the University said yesterday...
Fear of the forces of the then powerful Lavrenti Beria may have forced Malenkov to grant concessions to Nikita S. Khrushcev and make him the Party Secretary in 1952, the expert said, asking that his name and position here not be revealed. The Party leader controls the coterie of Party Secretaries, the central Party machinery, and the important appointment process. The professor speculated that in 1953, Malenkov, fearing Berla, may have taken his chance with Khrushchev, hoping to control some power in the Party machinery through contacts with his old friends. Apparently, however, Malenkov was outmaneuvered, and Krushchev was able...
Elsewhere in the University, experts voiced differing opinions on the significance of the shift, and the importance of the Malenkov-Khruschev split over the role of heavy industry. All however, emphasized the strength of Khruschev rather than Bulganin, because of the former's control of the Party apparatus...
...There appears to have been a major difference of opinion over the amount of emphasis to put on consumer goods as opposed to heavy industry," William L. Langer '15, Director of the Russian Research Center, said. Malenkov, in resigning as Prime Minister accepted the signing as Prime Minister accepted the blame for the failure of agricultural production--Khrushchev has stood for emphasis on heavy industry...
...There were also obviously some strong personal differences," Langer said. He added that the ascension of Bulganin "may just be a means of avoiding the appearance of a major rift between Khrushchev and Malenkov. Someone has got to come out on top eventually in a system like Russia," he said, and then speculated that "Bulganin conceivably may be retired that "Bulganin conceivably may be retired for being overworked or for some other reason, and then Khrushchev may take over...