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...rulers. The cerebral hemorrhage that killed Stalin-if that is what did it-assuredly left behind the man of some future year. Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle. But perhaps it was another, Nikita Khrushchev, Marshal Zhukov, or some figure still invisible to the eye of the outside world. One it was not: Lavrenty Beria, b. 1899, d. 1953 at the hands of the executioner...
...last mayoralty election (TIME, Jan. 29, 1951), Schreiber grew up on a farm in the Harz Mountains. He fought in the Kaiser's cavalry in World War I; the Nazis sacked him from his post as Prussian State Minister of Trade and Commerce; in 1945, Soviet Marshal Zhukov bounced him from his job for opposing the Communists' "land reform" program...
...taken the most important ministries (second row of chart). Vishinsky has been bumped down by Molotov, who again becomes Foreign Minister. Marshal Vasilevsky was similarly demoted to make room for Marshal Bulganin. Other familiar names among the first deputy ministers (third row): Jacob Malik, former U.N. delegate, and Marshal Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin...
...cold. He also tried to take care of the army, the likeliest center of opposition, by kicking Marshal Voroshilov upstairs to Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium (a figurehead job usually called "President of the Soviet Union" in the West), and by appointing as Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made an alternate member of the Party Presidium, the first time that a Moslem has gotten a top political job in Russia...
...police, has long been regarded as an ally of Malenkov's; furthermore, since alliances are of dubious value in Soviet Russia, Malenkov is said to have top men of his own in Beria's outfit. The army could conceivably seize power through some popular general like Zhukov-and must be watched-but it has shown very little political ambition in the past...