Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOBODY really knows all that goes on inside the Kremlin, but as Air Force General Nathan Twining said on his return from Moscow last year, there are "degrees of ignorance." When the big news broke of the sacking of Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, TIME began to dig for last week's comprehensive coverage and this week's Khrushchev cover story, tapping all the available intelligence sources in Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade. Bonn, Munich, London and Washington. To supplement the news and analysis from correspondents in the field. TIME called on the resources of its library of past Russian events...
...banishment, announced last week in foreign broadcasts by Radio Moscow, was intended as proof of the Soviet Union's new ''lose-and-live" policy. Demoted with Malenkov for their "anti-party"' activity ( TIME. July 15). two more of Stalin's "good men." Yyacheslav Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich. were also said to be slated for minor, unspecified jobs in the government apparatus. But there was a curious dichotomy about the lose-and-live policy: the avidly curious Russian public had been told nothing about these shifts, instead was being treated to a stepped-up hate...
...Malenkov lasted 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...
...there was room for genuine ideological difference. Was not the process of destalinization, crudely set off by Khrushchev, proceeding too quickly? Had not Khrushchev's rough peasant hand, thrust into the delicate balance between independent Yugoslavia and the dependent satellites, been a contributing factor in the revolt? Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich got their chance to rally allies in an attack on Khrushchev at the December plenum of the Central Committee and thus delay their own fate. The ostensible issue in the plenum was a party plan, pushed by Khrushchev, for decentralizing Soviet industry (a plan which decreases the power...
Early in June it was decided that Khrushchev should attend the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad. Immediately, Molotov began maneuvering. According to one version, he invited Zhukov to his dacha, appealed to him for army support at an extraordinary Presidium meeting, citing the danger to the whole defense setup if Khrushchev's reckless policies prevailed. (Zhukov instead privately tipped off Khrushchev that a plot was brewing.) Then Malenkov, Molotov or Kaganovich (one or all three) demanded a meeting of the Presidium. Khrushchev is said to have agreed, but when the Presidium met on June...