Word: zhukov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple of stout laughter floated across the room...
...also a warning to Khrushchev. The subsequent acknowledgment of Stalin's anti-Semitism was also a reminder of Khrushchev's work in the Ukraine. As the Central Committee began rehabilitating liquidated Red army officers, Nikita's chosen partner Bulganin suffered a severe loss of prestige. Marshal Zhukov, who had been downgraded (and all but liquidated) by top military commissar Bulganin at the high point of his great wartime victories, had an old score to settle...
...Stalin. Recalled to Moscow, he was named one of eight judges in the court-martial of Tukhachevsky, duly joined in the death sentence. The following year he himself disappeared, leaving the Japanese attack he had forecast to be belatedly met in the Lake Baikal region in 1939 by Georgy Zhukov...
...reversal argues much for the conjecture that the Red army is exerting a major influence on the new party line. But, despite Marshal Zhukov's apparently enlarging role in Central Committee affairs, it must also be remembered that (according to Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky), 86.4% of all Red army officers are also party members. Although most of the nine men mentioned by Voprosi Istorii were associated with Trotsky when he was War Commissar, their rehabilitation has been carried out without any mention of Trotsky, or of the charges of Trotskyite collaboration made against them by Stalin...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...