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Georgy Malenkov was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union after his death in 1953. He was involved in the party's purges, World War II production, and the power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev.
Learn about Georgy Malenkov, a Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who became prime minister after Stalin's death in 1953. Find out his role in the Great Purge, the Cold War, and his fall from power.
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Nov 13, 2009 · Learn about the brief reign of Georgy Malenkov, who became the Soviet leader after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. Find out how he was ousted by Nikita Khrushchev and what happened to him afterwards.
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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Russian statesman and Politburo member. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955. Raised in a wealthy farming family, Malenkov joined the Russian Revolution of 1917 as a volunteer in the Red Army.
All his adult life Georgy Malenkov understudied the Master—as secretary, filing clerk, hatchetman and intimate. He aped Stalin’s manners, parroted his phrases, affected the same...
Feb 2, 1988 · Georgi M. Malenkov, who was a leading political figure in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin but who was ousted in a Kremlin power struggle and sent into political oblivion, died last...
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Georgi Malenkov was a protégé of Stalin who became prime minister after his death in 1953, but was ousted by Khrushchev in 1955. He was a leading member of the Communist Party and the war cabinet, and was expelled from the party in 1961.
