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...confidently installed as head of the committee. But 16 days after Dictator Stalin's death, there was a significant change: Khrushchev supplanted Malenkov as First Secretary of the party, key position in the Communist setup, a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. Who was Nikita Khrushchev that he could grab so much power...
...although Nikita Khrushev's rise to power may not estrange the two nations, pessimists are wrong if they see the events in Moscow as leading to an all-out world war. There is no evidence that the resignation of Georgia Malcukov was timed with developments in the Formosa Strait, or that any other connection exists between...
Though meetings of the Central Committee of the U.S.S.R. are almost never mentioned publicly, on this occasion all the resources of Soviet propaganda were thrown into publicizing the address of the party's publicity-minded first secretary, Nikita Khrushchev. To Russians, the news could not have been very cheering: the accent was on failures ori the farm and the inadequacy of Soviet industry...
Fear of the forces of the then powerful Lavrenti Beria may have forced Malenkov to grant concessions to Nikita S. Khrushcev and make him the Party Secretary in 1952, the expert said, asking that his name and position here not be revealed. The Party leader controls the coterie of Party Secretaries, the central Party machinery, and the important appointment process. The professor speculated that in 1953, Malenkov, fearing Berla, may have taken his chance with Khrushchev, hoping to control some power in the Party machinery through contacts with his old friends. Apparently, however, Malenkov was outmaneuvered, and Krushchev was able...
Into the Spotlight. The eclipse of Mikoyan, even if temporary, throws into high relief a growing figure on the Soviet scene: stocky, jug-eared Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Communist Party-a job held by Stalin to the end of his life. A dozen major speeches have put Khrushchev in the world spotlight during the past year. He has attended Communist Party congresses in Poland and Prague, led a Soviet delegation...