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1 day ago · His main opponent in the quest for power, Georgy M. Malenkov, was skilled in administration and headed the government. Izvestiya (“News of the Councils of Working People’s Deputies of the U.S.S.R.”), the government’s newspaper, was Malenkov’s main media outlet.
5 days ago · In February 1941 three new candidate members were co-opted: Georgy Malenkov, Nikolay Voznesensky, and Zhdanov’s brother-in-law Aleksandr Shcherbakov. Shcherbakov died in 1945 and Kalinin in 1946; Malenkov and Voznesensky were made full members in 1946 and 1947, respectively; Nikolay Bulganin and Aleksey Kosygin became candidate members in ...
2 days ago · With the death of Joseph Stalin (who led the Soviet Union from 1928 and through the Great Patriotic War) in 1953, Georgy Malenkov was named leader of the Soviet Union.
Sep 6, 2024 · One of Stalin’s key allies was Georgian-born Lavrentiy Beria, who would become the People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (a secret police force responsible for prison labour camps) in November 1938. Onto this historical canvas, Malcolm Knox has added an invention: Vasil Murtov, Beria’s “first friend”.
1 day ago · Georgy Malenkov, the man who briefly succeeded Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union. On 6 March 1953, Stalin's death was announced, as was the new leadership.
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5 days ago · Malenkov, in choosing to remain prime minister, made a grave mistake, even though Lenin and Stalin had both occupied the office. Khrushchev now had a power base from which to attack Malenkov and win precedence for the party over the government.
Sep 9, 2024 · In the transcript of the meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet's party group on 8 February 1955, we find Khrushchev indicting his Kremlin colleague Georgy Malenkov for sins that justify dropping him as the first post-Stalin head of the Soviet government.
