Word: bulganin
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Khrushchev was feeling cocky about his stature at home as well as abroad. At a reception in Bucharest, Nikita casually told a story of how his fellow Presidium members nearly deposed him in the 1957 leadership showdown. Said Khrushchev, as the jaws of listening comrades dropped: "Bulganin, my friend for more than 20 years, told me: 'We are seven against your four.' I replied that this may be mathematically correct, but in politics things are different. Although in mathematics two plus two are four, this does not apply...
...seven opponents have since lost high office, and five have been sent to oblivion, e.g., Premier Bulganin, pensioned off in Moscow, Molotov exiled to an ambassadorship in Outer Mongolia...
...down a path that leads eventually to madness, but he is not a madman now, any more than he is the bumbling buffoon that the West first imagined him to be when it observed him on his hamming, hard-drinking trips abroad in 1954-57 with then-Premier Nikolai Bulganin...
Something New Added. Facing the first East-West summit conference since the Eisenhower-Eden-Faure-Bulganin meeting in Geneva in July 1955, the West showed a prevailing mood of optimism. It sprang in part from the human tendency of statesmen to congratulate themselves on the mere absence of crisis; in part from the West's prosperity, with its assurance that, economically, Western democracy was outperforming Communism; and in part from the fact that at present the world's great issues are dormant...
...longer was Bulganin in Caucasian exile as chairman of the obscure Stavropol Economic Council. He had been banished there for siding with Khrushchev's "antiparty" foes in the big 1957 leadership showdown. Even after he had made a groveling confession of his "mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented...