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...case of Nikolai Bulganin: Feb. 8, 1955-Named Premier of Russia after long years of service as a commissar and then a marshal whose main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...
...want to see Bulganin, buy a bouquet of flowers and go visit him at the hospital." Bulganin, demoted from Premier, "has been very ill" and has just had a "successful but serious" operation. Will he go back to his job as head of the state bank? "Now you are interfering in our internal affairs," grinned Khrushchev. ¶ How about Malenkov, supposedly managing a hydroelectric station in eastern Kazakhstan since his downfall last June? "You can buy a ticket and go visit him," shrugged Khrushchev. "I have not seen him in a long time, but the last time I heard...
...reunification, Mikoyan made it clear that this was something for West and East German governments (which do not recognize one another) to work out together, and if they could not, the big powers could do nothing about it. What then of the 1955 summit agreement at Geneva, between Eisenhower, Bulganin, Eden and Faure, to reunify Germany through free elections? Oh that, said Mikoyan, would have no place in a future summit agenda: "Since then a lot of water has gone over the dam, and much has changed. That is all in the past, and it is necessary to start...
...every three Italians. He had spent long years in Moscow, was a big wheel in Stalin's Comintern, won such confidence from the Kremlin that he was allowed to pursue his own "Italian line" of Communism. And he knew them all personally-Stalin, Beria, Molotov, Malenkov, Bulganin, Zhukov. All except...
...down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care for any," finally took a glass, clinked, sipped and discarded it. Even Nikolai Bulganin was at the party; with grave courtesy, Van addressed him as "Mr. Molotov...