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...good on its broken promise of $250 million in aid to Tito's Yugoslavia. Four days later came Radio Moscow's announcement: Soviet Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Tito had met "somewhere in Rumania," Khrushchev had brought along a tidy delegation, including agile First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, a trade expert, and 76-year-old Otto Kuusinen, former Secretary of the Comintern. But Khrushchev's old partner, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, did not come along, and he will not accompany the boss to East Germany next week, indicating either physical or political indisposition...
...only 16 days as First Secretary of the party, the crucial job Stalin willed him. Next in line after Malenkov in the hierarchy was Beria (who was quickly liquidated, a sop to popular anti-Stalin feeling, as much as for the crimes he had committed). Then came Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan...
...Khrushchev also had allies. Zhukov and Serov, at the army and police level, Mikoyan and Suslov, at the political level, ruthlessly crushed the Hungarian outbreak. At a February plenum of the Central Committee, Khrushchev was able to make a full comeback with his industrial plan. The fate of Malenkov & Co., if it had ever been in doubt, now seemed certain. But there was still one desperate play to make...
...party? If Khrushchev's bull voice had been muted before, it would soon be in full throat, making his demands known around the world. A top-level U.S. expert says: "Khrushchev has won, but the results will be catastrophic for him. He is now almost alone. Mikoyan will always leap to the winning side, and cannot be depended upon. The only first-rate man left on Khrushchev's side is Zhukov." Many felt that there was an advantage in the fact that Khrushchev was no ideologist, no man of theory, but a pragmatist, and that his pragmatism would...
...Faces. Of the old Presidium, only Khrushchev, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four...