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...most powerful woman in Russia, and hence the official ideal for all others, is Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva, 50, wife, mother, only female on the all-powerful Party Presidium-and one of Nikita Khrushchev's closest chums...
...Enemy. In Vienna, one of the first men Khrushchev chanced to see was Vyacheslav M. Molotov. The two men had last exchanged words four years before at a tense moment in Communist Party history when Khrushchev kicked Molotov out of the Party Presidium in a crucial power struggle. As befitted a low-ranking delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Molotov stood at the station in a crowd of Soviet women and children. "We must get together," said Khrushchev, unabashed, as he reached out to shake Molotov's plump hand. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
More than any other man in the Presidium, Polyansky typifies the new generation of technocratic leaders who are empirical in their outlook and have little time for dogma. The party biography supplies him with the best of credentials. He was born in a poor peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions...
Standing atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb, the most sacred spot in Communist Moscow, Gagarin was greeted by the Presidium, the powerful ruling body of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev made a long speech comparing him to Columbus, naming him a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarding him the brand-new title of First Hero Cosmonaut. The new major, neat in his grey and blue uniform, spoke with admirable poise, the party line rolling easily off his tongue. He thanked the party, the government and Premier Khrushchev for trusting him, a simple Soviet pilot, with the first flight to outer space...
While his style is different, "Khrushchev's structure of rule is very similar to Stalin's.'' Like Stalin, he holds full power to install and remove the members of the Party Presidium and the Secretariat. There is no convincing evidence that his choices for these posts are "determined by any factions or cliques operating outside his control...