Word: shelepin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin power politics, Brezhnev became a leading member in the plot to oust his patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin's functions...
...deals with the start of World War I-a critic writing in Moscow's Literary Gazette asserted that Solzhenitsyn had desired a Nazi victory in World War II. More important, at week's end the big trade union newspaper Trud, which often reflects the views of Alexander Shelepin, former chief of the KGB (secret police), charged that Solzhenitsyn despised his homeland and sympathized with German militarism...
...changed, except for Brezhnev and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, who remained No. 4. Dmitry Poliansky (TIME cover, March 29) rose from ninth to eighth position behind Kirill Mazurov, who advanced one step to No. 7. Gennady Voronov, Premier of the Russian Republic, dropped from fifth to tenth place. Aleksandr Shelepin, former head of the KGB secret police, slipped from the seventh to the eleventh spot, a clear-cut downgrading for a man who used to be one of the most powerful individuals in the Soviet Union...
...enough to be considered serious contenders for leadership are concerned, no one can predict exactly how they would behave once the power was finally in their hands. Alexander Dub?ek, for example, had no reputation for liberalism before he came to power in Prague. By training and temperament, Mazurov, Shelepin and the others appear no more inventive or flexible than Brezhnev...
...technical education and, during World War II, fought with guerrillas behind German lines. In the postwar period, he began a rapid rise through provincial Byelorussia's bureaucracy that led to his election to the Politburo. In March 1970, he reportedly joined fellow Politburo Members Mikhail Suslov and Aleksandr Shelepin in criticizing Brezhnev for his handling of the economy. As a result, Brezhnev would probably be happy to see him removed from the Politburo. But Mazurov seems likely to retain his position, largely because he has too much support within the party hierarchy for Brezhnev to remove...