Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The gun that ensures his control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest of all national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands of local branches whose vigilance reaches into every city block and every village hut. This pervasive network controls all facets of existence, pulls young and old into...
...Soviet Union's "unsatisfactory" relations with Red China, but had carefully left open the door to reconciliation. Brezhnev also swapped his title of First Secretary of the Communist Party for the old Stalinist title of General Secretary, and the Presidium, or eleven-member steering committee, was renamed the Politburo-another Stalinist label. But party speakers emphasized that the names derived from Lenin's time, not from Stalin's, and would only strengthen collective leadership...
Brezhnev was confirmed by the Congress as the Soviet Union's No. 1 leader: as party chief, he was elected unanimously to the top post in the new Politburo. As chief of government, Premier Aleksei Kosygin was named to the Politburo's No. 2 post. Into the No. 3 spot moved Mikhail Suslov, 63, the lean Stalinist ideologue, whose position is enhanced by the fact that he holds a key post in the important party Secretariat...
Soviet Doubletalk. It had all the earmarks of a do-nothing Congress, but Brezhnev jolted a few staunch anti-Stalinists by proposing that the Soviet Party Presidium be renamed Politburo -a title that won infamy under General Secretary Stalin prior to 1952. But Moscow City Boss Nikolai Egorychev, who proposed a return to the General Secretary label, hastened to point out that both terms were "Leninist" in origin. Egorychev was tapped by his superiors to deliver a lengthy speech explaining the difference between the sins of Stalin and the heroism of the Stalin era, a piece of Soviet doubletalk that...
After the war, Ceausescu rose rapidly toward the top, though he remained aloof from the Pauker group in the process. By 1955, at the precocious age of 37, he was a full-fledged Politburo member, two years later took charge of party organization and cadres-which made him second only to Dej in power and influence. The stocky figure with the curly brown hair and perpetually wrinkled forehead popped up everywhere as Dej's delegate: Moscow in 1959 and 1961, Italy in 1962, Peking in 1964. On his only known Western vacation, Ceausescu checked into Paris' Prince...