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Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 58, Deputy Premier Minister of War, will boss the army, navy and airforce. Son of a factory clerk, meagerly educated, joined the Bolsheviks in 1917, fought in Siberia. Afterwards turned bureaucrat-businessman. 1922, chief od Russia's largest electrical equipment plant; 1931, Mayor of Moscow; 1938, chairman of GOSBANK (Russia's Federal Reserve). In 1941, doffed his business suit, became political commissar of the armies defending Moscow, full general 1944, marshal 1947, but is primarily politician bossing army professionals. Politburo member, 1948. Small, neatly dressed, goateed, mild in manner and tone. Married a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: THE OTHER FOUR | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Geophysical Observatory and the group began holding secret meetings in his room. Police raided the room; young Djugashvili went underground, taking his first revolutionary nickname: Koba (meaning Indomitable). He became a strike agitator among Tiflis railroad men, but was soon run down by Czarist police, jailed and deported to Siberia. In absentia, he was elected a member of the executive of the All-Caucasian Federation of Social Democratic groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Siberia was the university of the revolution. Here Koba followed the sharp controversies between the right (Menshevik) and left (Bolshevik) wings of the Social Democrats, without committing himself on either side. He also had time to observe his fellow exiles and to study their weaknesses. That maneuvering, waiting, ruthless mind of his was already shaping. Russia's defeat by Japan in 1904-05 brought on the October 1905 Revolution. Koba escaped from Siberia, traveled hundreds of miles by peasant cart, suffered frostbite, and arrived back in Tiflis. Here he married Katerina Svanidze, an illiterate Georgian girl, who bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...Thus early he revealed his bent: control through committees. But what committees! "Our committees ought at once to set out to arm the people . . . to set up regional centers for the collection of arms, to organize workshops for the preparation of ... explosives." The revolution failed, Trotsky was sent to Siberia, and Koba's young wife died of tuberculosis. These were hard days for Koba, the Indomitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...bourgeois nonconformity" that Khrushchev was sent to Kiev in 1938. Characteristically, he started with a purge, not only of the "enemies of the people" (i.e., Ukrainian patriots) but of "all Communists who have lost their vigilance." Three thousand local party secretaries went to the cellar or were shipped to Siberia; six of the Ukraine's twelve provinces got new party chiefs. Purger Khrushchev's prize was the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and full membership in the Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Vydvizhenets | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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