Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalin himself made his first appearance on the cover on June 9, 1930, has reappeared eight times since (most recently as the background for Malenkov). No other Communist has approached that record. Runners-up are Molotov and Trotsky, with three each. But Malenkov, who has now been on TIME'S cover twice, may better their records in due course...
Stolen Thunder. Stalin's message was published on the eve of the first Communist Party Congress in 13 years, and stole the thunder from Malenkov and Molotov, who had been chosen to make the principal speeches. For four hours, Rising Favorite Georgy Malenkov (TIME, Oct. 6) harangued his audience with the old familiar routine, i.e., the "bosses" of the U.S. are bent on "world domination and war," and therefore the Soviet Union must "strengthen its defense capabilities." He and Molotov (same theme) spoke for the crowds to hear. But Stalin, whose words Communist strategists the world over will most...
Setback. Now his head was over the parapet, and now the snipers had something to shoot at. Even in Russia, seniors, pushed aside, resent young upstarts. Molotov, for one, could bear him a grudge because Malenkov exposed Mrs. Molotov's inefficiency. She lost her job first as head of the Cosmetics Trust, then as head of the Fish Industry. Kaganovich, a ranking Politburocrat and a Jew, could resent Malenkov's ill-concealed antiSemitism. But Malenkov, unlike Judy Holliday (see CINEMA), was not born yester day: he cultivated one mighty friend in the Politburo, Lavrenty Beria, head...
...18th Congress (1939), on the eve of World War II, laid down a new zig in Russia's zigzag foreign policy. Stalin denounced the Western democracies for "urging Germany on to march farther East." Thus he foreshadowed his deal with the Nazis (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939), which helped unleash Hitler's invasion of Poland. Stalin told the delegates: "It is now a question of a new redivision of the world...
...major decisions. Then power was delegated to the Central Committee (present probable membership 71), then the Central Committee itself had to give up most of its power to the Politburo (in charge of policy) and the Orgburo (in charge of organization). The present Politburo (twelve members, including Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov) is probably the most powerful group in history. Under the new rules, the Politburo and the Orgburo will be merged and the two ugly Orwellian names replaced by the stern old Latin "Presidium." There is no reason to assume that the new Presidium will be anything but a more efficient...