Word: voronov
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...arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins. If there were more precedent for honorable retirement, Leonid Brezhnev might have decided, on one of his bad days, to step down long before...
...masterly. Scheduled to make historic visits to West Germany in May and to the U.S. in June, Brezhnev will now take off with the fullest possible domestic backing for his pursuit of detente. The two Politburo members dismissed (the official phrase was "relieved of duty")-Pyotr Shelest and Gennady Voronov-have been notable opponents of his diplomatic initiatives, as well as of some of his domestic efforts. Among the four men promoted -Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, KGB (secret police) Chief Yuri Andropov and Leningrad Party Secretary Grigory Romanov-at least two are expected to play large...
Shelest and Voronov were the first Politburo members to be fired for political reasons since Brezhnev took over. Their fall was not unexpected. Last May, Shelest, 65, was removed from the leadership of the Ukrainian Party after he was believed to have opposed President Nixon's visit to Moscow. Since then he has also been accused of promoting Ukrainian nationalism. Voronov was ousted as Premier of the Russian Republic in 1971. Besides lacking enthusiasm for détente, he had disagreed with Brezhnev on agricultural policies. At 62, he may also have been regarded by Brezhnev as a future...
...present Politburo members retained their seats, but their order of seniority was 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...
...outsider is privy to the deliberations of the Politburo, and members most likely form different alliances on different issues. Even so, Brezhnev's main supporters appear to be Andrei Kirilenko, 64, who acts as his deputy, Ukrainian Party Boss Pyotr Shelest, 62, an ultra-hard-liner, and possibly Gennady Voronov, 60, Premier of the Russian Federation. Arvid Pelshe, 72, the Latvian party leader, and Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, 68, are both ailing and might possibly be replaced at the present Congress. Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, 68, will probably stay on. So too will Kosygin, 67, whose support comes mainly from...