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...living ghosts of his old comrades in Stalinism apparently still haunt Nikita Khrushchev-although Malenkov presumably runs a power station, Shepilov teaches school, Molotov tends diplomacy in the outer wastes of Mongolia, and Zhukov has reportedly retired from active military duty. Three weeks ago, in terms Communists recognized as portentous, Pravda published two front-page editorials warning that the party "cannot forget" the opposition of "Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov." At a Lenin birthday celebration, in Khrushchev's presence, Party Secretary Petr Pospelov attacked the fallen "antiparty group" by name for their "fierce resistance." Finally, Khrushchev himself joined vigorously...
...every three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin's Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own "Italian line" of Communism. And he knew them all personally-Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov. All except...
Togliatti "never bet a cent on Khrushchev," continued Seniga. "He thought he was worth very little." Togliatti's newspaper L'Unita called the turn wrong on Zhukov, thinking the marshal was about to be promoted instead of sacked. Each morning for three years, Togliatti reportedly walked into Communist Party headquarters in Rome with the same question: "What news from the peasant?" Whenever the reply was "Nothing new." Togliatti would sigh, "Then today we can work in peace." After Hungary brought a flood of desertions from the Italian Red Party, Togliatti told an intimate: "See where Khrushchev has brought...
After at least one rewrite of each chapter, Gunther and his wife checked it for accuracy, shipped it off for closer scrutiny by a Russian scholar. Whole sections had to be updated after Zhukov's ouster (though Gunther had foreseen Bulganin's eclipse). Near press time he had to turn out a new, unexpected foreword: "The Sputniks and the Future." In the last feverish months, he spent up to 14 hours a day at his desk, catnapping occasionally on a grey day bed in his office...
...school of political power, Khrushchev brought a new technique to Communist maneuver. Not even Stalin could match his deft juggling of friend and foe in shifting combinations and permutations. Moving into the key post of party secretary after Stalin's death, he teamed with Malenkov and Marshal Zhukov in 1953 to liquidate Secret Police Boss Beria. But that was the last time he had recourse to Stalin's murderous methods of eliminating rivals. When he joined with Molotov and Kaganovich to force Malenkov out of the premiership in 1955, the ousted Malenkov was merely demoted to the harmless...