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...commit himself to Malenkov. Although First Party Secretary Khrushchev might have seemed to Mikoyan a clodhopping countryman, Khrushchev had one prime quality that Mikoyan valued-political skill. Khrushchev could handle himself well in party scraps, and alone among Soviet leaders he could talk to the people. Outwardly, the Presidium was a crowd of collectively equal commissars, punching each other playfully in the ribs at Foreign Office receptions. But when Malenkov was bounced from the premiership in 1955, both Shepilov's accusing Pravda editorial and Bulganin's subsequent speech of denunciation were phrased as if by men who sought...
...when some of the old crowd, emboldened by Khrushchev's setbacks in Hungary and the Middle East, sought to confine his reach for top power, Mikoyan's instinct made him stick with Nikita. In June, when even Bulganin and the aged Voroshilov deserted Khrushchev and swelled the Presidium's vote to 7 to 4 against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin did before him, summoned henchmen from all over the Soviet...
...activists. One of the party's severest disciplinary judgments, "condemnation with a warning," has been pronounced upon Bulganin, said Mikoyan, for the Premier's vacillating stand last June, when, at the request of the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich "anti-party"' group, he chaired a meeting of the Presidium instead of turning the chair over to Nikita Khrushchev...
...sole ruler of the Soviet Union. You should interview the entire group involved in our collective leadership." So wrote Nikita Khrushchev last week to Cairo's government-supported newspaper Al Messa. Then he obligingly returned answers to all the newspaper's questions, dutifully signed with 14 Presidium names headed by Khrushchev, Bulganin, Zhukov, Voroshilov and Mikoyan...
EXCEPT for Khrushchev himself, no - Russian leader has a more fascinating future to watch than Marshal Georgy Konstantinomch Zhukov, newest member of the Communist Presidium, the only man in the top leadership to have made the Red army his full career, and his country's most authentic popular hero...