Word: stalinizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently took a back seat, not only to the party bosses, Khrushchev and Malenkov and Kaganovich, and the government officials, Molotov and Mikoyan, but even, in some respects, to his subordinate: Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Bulganin learned self-effacement in the hardest school of all: Joseph Stalin's, where self-effacement was often the price of survival. On the dictator's 70th birthday, every member of the Politburo was required to compose a paean of praise for the Soviet newspapers. Khrushchev contrived to include 45 separate mentions of Stalin's name and Malenkov...
...wary balancings of power that have gone on since Stalin died, Bulganin has a unique qualification: his experience as liaison man between the untrusting masters of the Kremlin and the untrusting brasshats of Moscow's Frunze Street, the Red army GHQ. The Kremlin used Bulganin as "the eye of the party on the army." At one point, his job was to cut down to size such wartime heroes as Zhukov and Konev. But Bulganin also seems to have ingratiated himself somewhat with the military people by becoming a lobbyist in the Kremlin for better weapons and higher army...
Watching Bulganin take hold of his new job as Premier, Moscow's foreign diplomats have been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin...
...years ago, backward* Afghanistan would not have dared to make demands on bigger and well-armed Pakistan. At that time Afghanistan was governed by two of the King's pro-Western uncles. Then Daoud Shah, brother-in-law of the King, began to get ambitious. In Moscow for Stalin's funeral, Daoud talked to Molotov long and earnestly. Six months later, backed by army leaders, Daoud ousted the King's uncles, installed himself as Prime Minister and named his brother Nairn as Foreign Minister...
...brought down Scelba. After making some moves in this direction, he went to work on the Social Democrats (19 seats), the Republicans (5 seats), the Liberals (14 seats). For four days he scurried around a sweltering Rome, bargaining and counterbargaining. As courtesy required, he also paid a call on Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni, who is panting to bring his fellow-traveling Socialists into a popular front. Segni rejected Nenni's offer; there are Christian Democrats who want to play footie with Nenni, but Segni is not one of them...