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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.
The members of Stalin's inner circle in charge of organizing his funeral were Nikita Khrushchev, then-head of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party; Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD; Georgy Malenkov, the chairman of the Presidium; and Vyacheslav Molotov, previously the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov [a] (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. [2] He was one of the accused in Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purge.
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 ...
Succeeded by: Vyacheslav Molotov: Editor-in-chief of Pravda; In office November 1918 – April 1929: Preceded by: Joseph Stalin: Succeeded by: Mikhail Olminsky: Full member of the 13th, 14th, 15th Politburo; In office 2 June 1924 – 17 November 1929: Candidate member of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Politburo; In office 8 March 1919 – 2 ...