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Russia's No. 3 Communist, the party's Central Committee Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, turned 60 and got enough tokens of Premier Georgy Malenkov's favor to suggest that he was riding high above any threat of purge: the Order of Lenin, the Hammer & Sickle Gold Medal, the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. The identical honors were once dealt out to Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, who made a one-way trip to a Moscow cellar last December...
...change of rulers. The cerebral hemorrhage that killed Stalin-if that is what did it-assuredly left behind the man of some future year. Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle. But perhaps it was another, Nikita Khrushchev, Marshal Zhukov, or some figure still invisible to the eye of the outside world. One it was not: Lavrenty Beria, b. 1899, d. 1953 at the hands of the executioner...
...sharp rise in the production of consumer goods."-Premier Malenkov. ¶ "A widespread development of Soviet trade."-Trade Minister Mikoyan. ¶ "An abundance of popular goods and agricultural produce."- Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
...more serious is the "near crisis" in agriculture revealed by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, who doubles as party secretary and overlord of Soviet farming. Khrushchev succeeded Malenkov in Stalin's old job as boss of the party; the fact that he confessed a "serious lag" in food production attests to the growing alarm of the Soviet leaders. The facts, as Khrushchev gave them: ¶ A shortage of cattle in 1952 equal to 22 million head. ¶ A decline in pork, from 5,000,000 tons in 1940 to 1,600,000 in 1952. ¶ A drop in butter production...
Agrogorods. First to realize this was Nikita Khrushchev. With Stalin's approval, he denounced the links as 1) "incapable of using heavy machinery"; 2) "standoffish"; 3) "a heresy." So Khrushchev himself took over...