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...Although Nikita Khruschchev now is party secretary, considered the position of most authority in the Soviet state structure, Berman feels that he has no more power inside the Presidium itself than any of the other members...
...army. Lined up with Zhukov were Marshals Alexander Vasilevsky and Vasily Sokolovsky, present army chief of staff, while Stalin's old buddy, white-whiskered Marshal Budenny, was on hand to give a cavalry dash to the gathering. Among the diamond-studded, gold-starred military uniforms, Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was a small, undistinguished figure in civilian clothes, but to remind the audience where the power lay, a huge banner had been hung across the stage: "Under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, under the leadership of the Communist Party-forward to the victory of Communism...
...last week's speech to the Foreign Policy Association at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Secretary Dulles in effect asked where Mother Russia figures in the announced policies of Party Leader Nikita Khrushchev. "What we see," he said, "is in part an elemental, personal struggle for power. But also one can perceive the outlines of a basic policy difference. There must in Russia be those who are primarily concerned with the welfare, the security and the greatness of the Soviet Union and its people...
...workers, cracked down ruthlessly on resisting collective farmers. He had an easy audacity about him. During World War II, Stalin gave him the rank of lieutenant general, and he went to work with General (now Marshal) Konev on the Ukrainian front. Professional Soldier Konev masterminded the military strategy; Nikita Khrushchev took care of the politics...
...knew next to nothing about banking but became head of the GOSBANK, the Soviet Federal Reserve. In the '30s at Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white gloves for Moscow's traffic cops...