Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's new line-up of power, announced with surprising speed after Stalin's death, shows how the party dominates the state in Soviet Russia. The Big Five (outlined in red) of the new Presidium of the Council of Ministers (a sort of policymaking inner cabinet of the government) are all members of the ruling echelon of the Communist Party, the Presidium of the Central Committee. Malenkov, the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (i.e., Premier), is listed first in the party hierarchy, with the other members appearing in the order given in the official communiqu...
...other: Presidium Member Lazar M. Kaganovich, brother of Stalin's third wife...
Ever since Joseph Stalin abolished the Politburo last October, the mystery inside an enigma (as Churchill once called it) of the Kremlin has only deepened. Who really administers the country now, the 36-man Presidium or the loman Secretariat (kitchen cabinet)? On the theory that it is the smaller, tighter Secretariat, Western intelligence agents and analysts last week were keeping an eye on a newly powerful figure in it, Nikita Khrushchev...
...powerful Presidium (25 full members, eleven alternates) to replace the defunct Politburo (TIME, Sept. 1). No. 1 on the list of Presidium members: Joseph Stalin. Chief aides: Molotov, Malenkov, Beria. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, His Master's Voice at the U.N. (see above), got a pat on the back: he was included as an alternate member of the Presidium (his Menshevik past has previously kept him from higher honors). Politburocrat Andrei Andreev, onetime boss of collective farms, was not on the list...
...policy) and the Orgburo (in charge of organization). The present Politburo (twelve members, including Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov) is probably the most powerful group in history. Under the new rules, the Politburo and the Orgburo will be merged and the two ugly Orwellian names replaced by the stern old Latin "Presidium." There is no reason to assume that the new Presidium will be anything but a more efficient Politburo...