Word: politburocrats
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Appointed deputy director of Propaganda and Agitation in 1948, director in 1949. He suffered a brief setback for association with Politburocrat Nikolai Voznesensky (executed by Stalin, posthumously rehabilitated last month...
Little was known about him except that he was the son of a miner in the Kursk region, joined the Bolsheviks in 1918 and served as a soldier in the civil war. As a party worker in the '30s. he caught the attention of Politburocrat Lazar Kaganovich (now First Deputy Premier and apparently No. 8 or 9 in the hierarchy), who brought him to Moscow. After the vast 1937-38 purge had carried off hundreds of thousands of his comrades, Khrushchev was sent into the Ukraine to help build up the demoralized party organization. He became a Ukrainian expert...
...Russian oppression. And as usual in such cases, the punishment was purge-this time "in Stalin's manner," as Radio Tiflis neatly put it. Nearly every ranking Communist in the Georgian Soviet lost his job for fostering "bourgeois nationalism," including three top officials-Baramiya, Zodelava and Rapava. The Politburocrat responsible for Georgian affairs was obviously in trouble. He was Lavrenty Beria, and in proof of his displeasure, Stalin forced the police chief personally to lead the purge of the very Georgian leaders whom he himself had appointed. Now, having outlived his old master, Beria was having his revenge...
...doctors. Official newspapers pointed the accusing finger at "the organs of state security" and the bosses of the Ministry of Health for "gullibility and carelessness," for failing to detect the "plot" in time. Many Western observers leaped to the conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...
Marshal Tito and the party high command wanted to replace the nine-man Politburo with a new 13-member executive committee; the delegates approved. The high command wanted to get rid of Blagoje Neskovic, a Politburocrat and a Vice Premier, because he had been displaying pro-Cominform sympathies; the delegates sacked Neskovic...