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...also a parable of treachery. Even Anastas Mikoyan, then Soviet President and a putative Khrushchev ally, comes off as a bet hedger who bows to pressure from a web of plotters that includes Presidium ((now called Politburo)) members Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, Deputy Premier Alexander Shelepin and KGB chief Vladimir Semichastny...
...Arzumanyan turned to me. "Shelepin said that you got your doctor-of-science degree without defending...
Should a worker feel he is not being properly compensated, he can complain to an official of his union called a profsoyuz. Unions are almost like state agencies; indeed the former chief of the KGB, Alexander Shelepin, was the official head of the U.S.S.R. trade union movement for many years. "The goals of management and the profsoyuz are the same here," says Kazimir Kaspirovich, deputy chairman of the professional union at the factory. "We have no major disagreements with management...
...Malenkov, to diplomatic exile, or, like Nikita Khrushchev, to virtual house arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins. If there were more precedent for honorable retirement, Leonid Brezhnev might have decided, on one of his bad days, to step down long before...
Potential rivals have been dealt with ruthlessly. One, the relatively youthful Alexander Shelepin, 58, was dismissed from the Politburo almost two years ago and has not been heard of since. The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post. Another highly regarded younger man. Dmitri Polyansky, 59, had the misfortune of presiding as Minister of Agriculture during last year's disastrously poor grain harvest. Brezhnev blamed the harvest on bad weather but sent Polyansky packing as Ambassador to Japan anyway...