Khrushchev Power Struggle 1953-1956
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- Khrushchev Power Struggle 1953-1956
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Advantages
- Perceived Personally. I.e. down-to-earth, take on challenges, 'natural wit', resourceful.
- Good at Political fighting
- Power Base; followers (local Party bosses) in Central Committee
- Party Leader: Party had increased role after Stalin's Death
- Colleagues (molotov) reported Khrushchev listened to others and respected their views
- Put the people at ease, prepared to meet them in outlying provinces
- Record of success in several key positions
- Lucky: survived difficult situations during Stalin's rule
- Disadvantages
- Seen as crude, impulsive and unsophisticated by colleagues
- Prone to overreach himself, and think himself an expert on everything
- Failures: despite rep as Agr' expert, his reforms were defeated in the early 1950's
- Closely associated old Stalinist regimes: implicated in Purges
- Not good at Strategic thinking and seeing the bigger picture
- Advantages
- Georgi Malenkov
- Advantages
- Steadier and less concerned with limelight than the 'more impetuous' Khrushchev
- Ally of powerful Beria
- Appealed to intellectual wing of the Party
- Prepared to gain popularity by promising reforms to raise the standard of living and improve Agr'
- Disadvantages
- Hated by important colleagues such as Molotov and Kaganovich
- Regarded as 'colourless'
- Critical Errors of Judgement; paying more attention to the state of bureaucracy than the Party, giving up the post as the head of the Party, so opening the way for Khrushchev
- Advantages
- Nicolai Bulganin
- Advantages
- Prominent in the Party, with a record of service in key positions
- Disadcantages
- Had powerful enemies, such as Malenkov
- Lacked political skills and drive to outflank rivals
- Too naive and indecisive, and lacked leadership qualities, compared to rivals
- Advantages
- Lavrenti Beria
- Advantages
- Strong power base through position in security services
- Knowledge on everyone in the Party hierarchy
- Utterly ruthless and cunning
- Disadvantages
- His power and ruthlessness made him feared and hated: created fear and insecurity, colleagues united against him and liquidate him after Stalin's death
- Prone to underestimate colleagues and to humiliate them publicly
- Advantages
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Politcal
- Ecomical
- Military
- Personality
- Social
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