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Khrushchev's choice of Leningrad, Russia's second city (pop. 4,800,000), was in itself cunning. The "plotters," said Khrushchev, had timed their attack on the Central Committee to coincide with the 250th anniversary (June 23) of Leningrad,* to prevent Presidium members from taking part in the celebrations in that city. Reason: the anti-party group was "particularly gravely guilty of the most flagrant errors and shortcomings which took place in the past" in Leningrad...
...this time, Khrushchev dared not make a bid for full power; the cunning and untrusting old hands around the Presidium were united by one resolve-not to let one man get such power over them again. And so the Soviet myth of collective leadership spread. They were all presumably such buddies: "I'm heavy industry, boom, boom!" said Khrushchev at one diplomatic reception. Then he tapped Malenkov on the shoulder: "And Georgy here is light industry, peep, peep...
Immediately Presidium Member Andrei Kirilenko, a virtual unknown from Sverdlovsk, attacked Molotov, saying that the party conservatives were "responsible for the outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...
...Faces. Of the old Presidium, only Khrushchev, Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Suslov and Kirichenko remained. Up from the ranks of the alternates came plump, photogenic Ekaterina Furtseva, long a particular Khrushchev favorite, and the first woman ever to reach the Presidium. Along with her came chesty Marshal Zhukov, hero of Berlin, 69-year-old Trade Union Specialist Nikolai Shvernik, Frol Kozlov, a Leningrad party boss who backed up Khrushchev's stand on the Leningrad Case at the 20th Party Congress, and Leonid Brezhnev, who had worked with Khrushchev years ago when he was cleaning out opposition in the Ukraine. Four...
...Soldier Moves Up. The rise of Marshal Zhukov, the only real fighting man (except the ancient Voroshilov) admitted to the top Presidium of the party, gave rise to a rash of headlines and a flurry of commentators' speculations on the key role of the Red army. But U.S. specialists on Soviet affairs do not go so far: they point out that Zhukov was just one of five alternates who automatically moved up to fill a vacancy; had the army exacted a special price for its support of Khrushchev, some other marshal would presumably have moved up to alternate...