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Liaison Man. In the roster of Soviet eminence, Bulganin until recently took a back seat, not only to the party bosses, Khrushchev and Malenkov and Kaganovich, and the government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include...
...level strategy is hammered out collectively, execution and considerable power of discretion is often delegated to one committee member. Thus, Molotov at San Francisco agreed to pay half the cost of a U.S. plane shot down over the Bering Strait, after only the most casual refer-back to Moscow. Mikoyan, negotiating the economic clauses of the Austrian state treaty, accepted a sizable reduction in Austria's reparations payments without leaving the room...
...MIKOYAN: A shrewd, sharp Armenian and a wizard at trade and barter. Intellect: brilliant. Force of character: limited...
...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
Facts & Fantasy. "That is what we agreed on, isn't it?" said Khrushchev to his colleagues. Mikoyan and Kaganovich nodded. The party boss looked around for Premier Bulganin, who had turned off in the crush of people, and missing him, remarked: "I have discussed this with Bulganin, and he agrees with me . . ." Then grabbing Walmsley by the lapels-his customary way of speaking when he is serious-Khrushchev began: "I liked the last statement of Eisenhower at his press conference-not all of it, I must tell the truth: there were right things and wrong things. In any case...