Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician. He briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the absolute leader of the Soviet Union. He became embroiled in a power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev that culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955. He was exiled to Kazakhstan in 1957, before ultimately being expelled from the Party altogether in November 1961.
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Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician. He briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin as the absolute leader of the Soviet Union. He became embroiled in a power struggle with Nikita Khrushchev that culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Presidium in 1957. He was exiled to Kazakhstan in 1957, before ultimately being expelled from the Party altogether in November 1961. After a short sojourn in Kazakhstan, he returned to Moscow and kept a low profile for the remainder of his life. He never completed his university degree – his degree was never completed – and his records have been indefinitely classified. He died in Moscow on 14 January 1988, at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife, Valeria Golubtsova, and a son, Yevgeny, who is now a Russian politician and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Union. His father was a wealthy farmer in Orenburg province. His mother was the daughter of a blacksmith and the granddaughter of an Orthodox priest. His paternal ancestors immigrated during the 18th century from the area of Ohrid in the Ottoman Rumelia Eyalet,. Some of them served as officers in the Russian Imperial Army. He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1920 and worked as a political commissar on a propaganda train in Turkestan during the Civil War. In 1924, Stalin noticed him and assigned him to the Central committee of the Orgburo of the Party. In 1925, he was entrusted with overseeing the party’s records.
This brought him into contact with Stalin who had by then successfully consolidated power as General Secretary. As a result of this association, he became heavily involved in Stalin’s purges before later being given sole responsibility over the Soviet missile program during World War II. In order to secure his position as Stalin’s favorite, he successfully discredited Marshal Georgy Zhukov and suppressed all glory associated with Leningrad during WWII so that Moscow maintained its image as theSoviet Union’s sole cultural and political capital. In 1920, he started living together with Valeria. GolubTsova had a direct connection to Vladimir Lenin through her mother — one of the \”Nevzorov sisters\” who were apprentices of Lenin and studied together with him for years, long before the Revolution. This connection helped both Golub tsova and Malenov in their communist career. Later, Malenhov was promoted in the Communist party ranks and was appointed Communist-based secretary at the Moscow Higher Technical School in the 1920s. He later became the director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, a center for nuclear power research in Russian civil war in the 1930s. In the 1950s, he forged a close friendship with Vyacheslav Malyshev, who later became chief of Soviet nuclear program alongside Igor Kurchatov. In 1954, he resigned as Premier of the USSR and was also forced to resign as Premier.
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