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  2. Anti-Party Group - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Party Group, fully referenced in the Soviet political parlance as "the anti-Party group of Malenkov, Kaganovich, Molotov and Shepilov, who joined them" (Russian: антипартийная группа Маленкова, Кагановича, Молотова и примкнувшего к ним Шепилова, romanized: antipartiynaya gruppa Malenkova, Kaganovicha, Molotova i ...

  3. Collective leadership in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    (L-R) Molotov, Voroshilov, Beria, Malenkov, Bulganin, Khrushchev, Kaganovich and Mikoyan, the eight members of the collective leadership, at Stalin´s bier in 1953. Georgy Malenkov, the Premier of the Soviet Union, emerged as one of the major contenders for the Soviet leadership in 1953, but lost to Khrushchev in 1955. [2]

  4. Georgy Malenkov - Wikipedia

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    Malenkov was born in Orenburg in the Russian Empire on January 8, 1902. [1] His paternal ancestors immigrated during the 18th century from the area of Ohrid in the Ottoman Rumelia Eyalet (present day North Macedonia). [4] [5] Some of them served as officers in the Russian Imperial Army. His father was a wealthy farmer in Orenburg province.

  5. Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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    A power struggle between Malenkov and Khrushchev began, and on 14 March Malenkov was forced to resign from the Secretariat. [54] The official explanation for his resignation was "to grant the request of chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers G. M. Malenkov to be released from the duties of the Party Central Committee". [55]

  6. List of leaders of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The instances were: 1) the 2- to 3-year period between Vladimir Lenin's incapacitation and Joseph Stalin's leadership; 2) the three months following Stalin's death; [39] 3) the years between Nikita Khrushchev's fall and Leonid Brezhnev's consolidation of power; [23] and 4) the ailing Konstantin Chernenko's tenure as General Secretary. [60]

  7. Cold War (1953–1962) - Wikipedia

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    On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched the first Earth satellite into space. Sputnik 1's official mission was to send back data from space, however the effects of this launch were monumental for both the USSR and the United States. For both countries, the launch of Sputnik 1 sparked the start of the Timeline of the Space ...

  8. History of the Soviet Union (1953–1964) - Wikipedia

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    Within a decade, Khrushchev declared, the Soviet people would have equal living standards and material comforts with the United States and Western Europe. [ citation needed ] In addition, the 22nd Congress saw a renewed attack on Stalin, which culminated in the expulsion of remaining Old Bolsheviks like Molotov and Kaganovich from the party.

  9. Nikita Khrushchev - Wikipedia

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    Khrushchev was born on 15 April 1894, [e] [2] in Kalinovka, [3] a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast (then Kursk Governorate), near the present Ukrainian border. [4] His parents, Sergei Khrushchev and Kseniya Khrushcheva, were poor Russian peasants, [ 5 ] and had a daughter two years Nikita's junior, Irina. [ 2 ]