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Following Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the highest-ranking member of the Secretariat. On 14 March, the Politburo (then known as the Presidium) forced him to give up his position in the latter thereby allowing Nikita Khrushchev to become the party's highest-ranking Secretary.
Irrespective of his health status in his final days, Lenin was already losing much of his power to Joseph Stalin. [13] Alexei Rykov succeeded Lenin as chairman of the Sovnarkom, and although he was de jure the most powerful person in the country, in fact, all power was concentrated in the hands of the "troika" – the union of three influential ...
In 1947, he succeeded Stalin as Minister for the Armed Forces and was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. In early 1948, he became a full member of the Politburo. After Stalin's death in 1953, Bulganin supported Nikita Khrushchev during his power struggle with Georgy Malenkov. In 1955, he replaced Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.
After Stalin died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. However the central figure in the immediate post-Stalin period was the former head of the state security apparatus, Lavrentiy Beria.
Russian industrialist: 1918-05-20 Moscow: Bolsheviks: Unknown. [2] Nicholas II: last Tsar of Russia: 1918-07-17 Yekaterinburg: Cheka: Execution. [3] Francis Cromie: British naval attaché: 1918-08-31 Petrograd: Bolsheviks: Killed in combat. Alexander Dutov: Russian Cossacks: 1921-02-07 Suiding: China: Bolsheviks: Pyotr Wrangel: Russian White ...
Before that time, the 1918 Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic functioned as the constitution of the USSR. According to the 1918 Constitution, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (CEC), whose chairman was head of state, had the power to determine what matters of income and taxation would go to the state ...
In November 1917, Lenin issued the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia, granting non-Russian ethnic groups the right to secede and form independent nation-states. [185] Many declared independence ( Finland , Lithuania in December 1917, Latvia and Ukraine in January 1918, Estonia in February 1918, Transcaucasia in April 1918, and ...
Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-226-81568-8 p. 6 ^ See Hiroshi Oda. "Criminal Law Reform in the Soviet Union under Stalin", in The Distinctiveness of Soviet Law, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987, ISBN 978-90-247-3576-1 p. 90–92