Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party pack was snapping at the losers' heels. Biggest bark came from the army newspaper Red Star, which denounced Malenkov & Co. for "treacherous" and "conspiratorial action," capital charges in any society. Up from alternate to fill one of the vacancies on the party Presidium went Marshal Georgy Zhukov, indicating that Khrushchev had army support...
...drumbeat of attack increased ominously. Marshal Zhukov, in measured words, told an armed forces rally that the four ousted leaders were guilty of "conspiratorial action." The Soviet army newspaper Red Star said that the accused had threatened to undermine the foundations of Soviet military security-a move "which would have played into the hands of the enemies of the Soviet state, the imperialist aggressors." Added the government newspaper Izvestia: "Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, but especially Malenkov, are directly responsible for the disorganized state of Soviet agriculture during the past several years." Malenkov was also charged with "ignorance that retarded...
...force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing his old party rivals as associates of the hated Stalin. The fact that he himself had been a Stalin crony apparently did not embarrass Khrushchev. Who in Russia dared point this...
...Faces. Of the old Presidium, only Khrushchev, Bulganin, 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...
...Soldier Moves Up. The rise of Marshal Zhukov, the only real fighting man (except the ancient Voroshilov) admitted to the top Presidium of the party, gave rise to a rash of headlines and a flurry of commentators' speculations on the key role of the Red army. But U.S. specialists on Soviet affairs do not go so far: they point out that Zhukov was just one of five alternates who automatically moved up to fill a vacancy; had the army exacted a special price for its support of Khrushchev, some other marshal would presumably have moved up to alternate...