Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian administrative setup experienced further quakes last weekend when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial production). This had occurred on the same day that Molotov and Mikoyan were released of their ministries. But there was a difference: Molotov and Mikoyan remained as Deputy Prime Ministers; Voznesensky...
...hard fact was that Molotov and Mikoyan, among the few surviving Old Bolsheviks, remained as members of the Politburo. The probability, as Correspondent Joseph Newman cabled the New York Herald Tribune through the Moscow censorship, was that they were in line for "more important work"-not demoted but promoted. Stalin is 69; he has said publicly that his health is not good. He must plan on some sort of succession...
Molotov was chosen as a Politburo "nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...elected to the Party Central Committee, and in 1926 to the Politburo as a nominee. He has been a full member since 1935. Then he began his long stint as internal and foreign trade commissar, with the goal of raising the Soviet people's standard of eating...
...America shows that it intends to support Europe against Russia, such action will "put the brakes" on the Politburo, he asserted...