Word: presidium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dictator Proposes. A party official read off the routine resignation of the old government. Then old (77) President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov-just re-elected to another term in his largely honorific post -strode briskly to the rostrum and took his stand behind the massed mikes. Deputies leaned forward, earphones clamped on their heads. In the expectant silence, the whirring of movie cameras could be heard...
...polls this week. Students of the tides of power were more interested in Pravda's pre-election compilations of how many election districts nominated various Kremlin leaders as their candidates. In the past Stalin's name had led all the rest. 1958's score for Presidium members...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...Cell Game. Khrushchev's Presidium rivals thought Khrushchev was overdoing it. They had thought so ever since he rose in the Kremlin's Great Hall at the 20th Party Congress in 1956 to deliver his weeping, three-hour indictment of Stalin as a "murderer" and "maniac." They sprang their showdown last June, and it was a close thing. The majority present voted to deny Khrushchev the chair, and Bulganin took over. Did the Old Guard think that because they had destroyed Stalin's police power, they could vote Khrushchev freely out of his job as they had voted Malenkov...
...Move. At home, Khrushchev nominated himself as spokesman of the New Class in the Soviet Union. He was careful to disassociate himself from Stalin's terror, and the New Class was grateful. Khrushchev himself told British Laborite Aneurin Bevan the story of how it had been before. Presidium members, said Khrushchev, drew up a plan to decentralize the economy after World War II, and Voznesensky, the chief economic planner, took it to Stalin. "Voznesensky came back," said Khrushchev, "and told them Stalin had denounced him as a traitor to socialism. This made them angry because Voznesensky had merely done what...