The tallowy face of Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov glowered from the front page of every important newspaper in the land. As a birthday gift he got the Order of Lenin, Communism’s highest ...

Radio Moscow announced that Georgy Malenkov and his friends are worried about “serious faults” in the 1924 edition of Karl Marx, and have delegated Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to prepare ...

Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as head of the Soviet Communist Party, on March 14 1953, just nine days after Stalin’s death. In 11 years, the gregarious commissar left his mark on the world.

Its leaders through the years — either dictators or secretary generals of the Central Committee — were Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Breshnev ...