Word: malenkov
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...left coalition government of the Christian Democrats and Socialists. While Italy is beset by inflation and strikes, the coalition parties are campaigning largely on the argument that Communists are Communists, one using Khrushchev's ouster to underline the point; the Christian Democrats even put up portraits of Khrushchev, Malenkov, Stalin and Mao right in Rome's Via Veneto to recall the jungle warfare in the Red world. The Communists counter by sticking to Italian economic issues and by pointing to Mayor Dozza and the rinnovatori (modernizers) elsewhere to show that Communism has indeed changed...
...More Airlift. All of these factors, to a greater or lesser degree, were present throughout Khrushchev's ten-year reign. Indeed, his leadership of Russian Communism was gravely threatened once before. In 1957, a group of Stalinist rebels led by Malenkov met in the turbulent wake of Nikita's 20th Party Congress denunciation, which took Stalinism apart. Khrushchev was then...
...neither man fits any past Kremlin mold for power. As technocrats, both are colorless politicians. And, unlike Stalin, Malenkov and Khrushchev -each of whom had to claw his way to the seat of power-both Brezhnev and Kosygin were the logical heirs to their new posts. They had been put in line by the fallen Khrushchev...
...lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows better now." Malenkov was "a weak man who could not make decisions...
...issues, as well as the inevitable internal questions such as consumer goods versus heavy industry, from becoming ideological weapons with which the opponents could assault each other. Traditionally, the victor has been the advocate of a conservative hard line, the position from which Stalin defeated Trotsky and Khrushchev upset Malenkov. But would a hard-line candidate attempt to oust an opponent by breaking the nuclear test-ban treaty or, ultimately, starting a nuclear war to prove that Communist civilization could be built on the rubble of the old order? It is more likely that, following Khrushchev's example, the hard...