Word: shvernik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...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 new faces were added: Otto Kuusinen...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...
...personal allegiance, no ideological debt. As if to underline his sense of independence, Mao did not go to Moscow for Joe Stalin's funeral, instead sent a delegation under his Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai. At the first news of Stalin's death, Mao cabled President Shvernik, and Chou En-lai cabled Vishinsky; their condolence messages must have reached Shvernik and Vishinsky just as they were being fired, suggesting that Peking had no advance word of Malenkov's shake-up plans...
...Nikolai Shvernik...