Died 1988-01-14.
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Georgy Malenkov
Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a power struggle with the party's First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, which culminated in his removal from the premiership in 1955 as well as the Central Committee Presidium in 1957.
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politics · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955 · politician · also Georgy Malenkov, Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Malenkov
Born 8 January 1902 · Died 14 January 1988 · Q180588
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1957· 2 entries
Malenkov was dismissed from the Presidium and expelled from the party altogether by 1961
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Malenkov organized an attempt at a coup against Khrushchev
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1955· 1 entry
As well as the Central Committee Presidium in 1957
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1954· 2 entries
Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1954–1958).
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A delegation of the British Labour Party was in Moscow, including former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and former Secretary of State for Health Aneurin Bevan
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1953· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1953–1955).
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(despite Malenkov having taken part in Beria's downfall)
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1952).
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1950· 1 entry
Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1950–1954).
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1949· 1 entry
Malenkov personally came to Leningrad leading a regiment of armed men from Moscow MGB special forces and swiftly removed and arrested the city leaders
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1948· 1 entry
Malenkov succeeded Andrei Zhdanov as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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1946· 2 entries
Malenkov was named a candidate member of the Politburo
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1946–1950).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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1943· 3 entries
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1943).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1943).
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Also became chairman of a committee that oversaw the post-war economic rehabilitation of some liberated areas with the exception of Leningrad
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1939· 1 entry
Became the head of the Communist party's Cadres Directorate, which gave him control over personnel matters of party bureaucracy
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1938· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1938).
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Career landmark: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (1938–1946).
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Malenkov was one of the key figures in bringing about the downfall of Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the NKVD
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1925· 2 entries
Malenkov worked in the staff of the Organizational Bureau (Orgburo) of the Central Committee of the CPSU
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Served in the staff of the party's Organizational Bureau (Orgburo), where he was entrusted with overseeing member records
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1924· 1 entry
Stalin noticed Malenkov and assigned him to the Orgburo of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
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1920· 2 entries
And worked as a political commissar on a propaganda train in Turkestan during the Civil War
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In Turkestan, Malenkov started living together with Soviet scientist Valeriya Golubtsova (15 May 1901 – 1 October 1987), daughter of Aleksei Golubtsov, former State Councilor of the Russian Empire in Nizhny Novgorod and
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1918· 1 entry
Malenkov joined the Red Army as a volunteer and fought alongside the Communists against White Russian forces in the Civil War
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-01-08.
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