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Russia is being ruled now by the nine-member Presidium, apparently held together by an "extraordinary discipline," Harold J. Berman, professor of Law and research associate of the Russian Research Center, said at a U.N. Council forum on "The Reorganization of the Soviet Power Structure" last night...
...chief and possibly fatal weakness in the organization of the Presidium is the lack of a pre-determined method of succession to power, he continued. While such a situation appears to invite dissension, Berman reminded his audience that the majority of Presidium members have held their posts for 15 years or more...
...effect, farm workers, like factory workers, would become a city proletariat, radiating out to tractor stations each day and returning to the towns each night. When the peasant rebelled in the only way he could, by working inefficiently. Khrushchev cracked down. Stalin rewarded him by putting him on the Presidium of the party and in 1952 making him one of the eight secretaries of the reformed party secretariat...
...announcements. Even the high-ranking generals among the Deputies had been surprised. It had all happened behind closed doors, within that narrow circle of men who, each fearful for his own life, had tried to create a headless dictatorship with checks and balances, and had failed. In the party Presidium pew Malenkov was hamming a little, pretending to talk to the men around him. But no one in that audience was deceived. They knew now how serious it was for Malenkov. At the other end of the bench the parched, crushed-satin face of Molotov was turned away, and Marshal...
Serov did not belong either to the presidium of party or government. An old GPU agent, whose most notable exploits were liquidating the Baltic and Chechen peoples during World War II, Serov is a tall, cadaverous man who walks unevenly. The Germans knew him as "the one with the limp." They made his acquaintance in the Ukraine, where he is said to have worked with Khrushchev...