Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...metallurgical engineer, is an efficient, tough administrator who delivered the key speech on new party regulations at last October's Moscow party congress. He has apparently recovered from a heart attack he suffered last year. Kozlov occupies a strategic position in the party secretariat from which Stalin and Khrushchev made their power plays, and, like them, he has placed his supporters in key posts. But apart from his health, two circumstances weaken Kozlov's chances: the mere fact of being once designated by Khrushchev as heir apparent tends to unify his rivals (Lenin preferred Trotsky and Stalin handpicked...
...KOSYGIN, 58, was only 13 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and is one of the best examples of the new breed of Soviet technocrat who relies less on Communist dogma than on practical results. A wartime premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, Kosygin entered the inner Kremlin circle under Stalin, lost the dictator's favor in 1948 and remained relatively unimportant until 1959, when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling companion...
...Kremlin last week were the bosses of the Soviet Union's other dependencies -East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Reason for the conclave: a top-level meeting of COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance), the lame, 13-year-old Communist-bloc alliance originally designed by Stalin as an answer to the Marshall Plan. The COMECON agenda was, as usual, secret, but obviously two acute problems had converged to unsettle Soviet policymakers: 1) the booming success of the Common Market, which violates Red dogma that capitalist states must devour each other in competition for new markets; 2) the chronic...
...Conversations with Stalin, Djilas...
Died. Demaree Caughey Bess, 68, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post and Far Eastern expert who, at the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, reported that Stalin not only expected war in Europe but welcomed it; in Manhattan...